E-mail Dude,
I got this one the other day.
It's filled with interesting facts (although I wonder if they are all true).
>1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
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>2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the
>company once had.
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>3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - other wise
>it will digest itself.
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>4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
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>5. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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>6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
>continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
>
>7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. really?????
>
>8. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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>9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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>10. Every person has a unique tongue print.
>
>11. The 'spot' on 7U P comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was
>albino.
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>12. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
>
>13. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in
>the distance.
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>14. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
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>15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
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>16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
>kill a small sized dog.
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>17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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>18. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
>stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
>
>19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
>pants.
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>20. Ketchup was sold in the! 1830s as medicine.
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>21. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
>the same time.
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>22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive f rom
>each salad served in first class.
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>23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
>made of wood.
>
>24. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in
>the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
>'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored
>the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
>
>25. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
>
>26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
>and silver!
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>27. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a
>recorded Wendy before!
>>28. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
>paint Mona Lisa's lips.
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>29. If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go
>mad and sting itself to death.
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>30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
>$1.19. Yo u also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
>able to make change for a dollar.
>
>31. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
>Captain Kirk mask painted white.
>
>32. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which
>stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
>thumb.
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>33. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
>automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the
>Victrola, so they called themselves M! otorola.
>
>34. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
>quicksand.
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>35. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of
>celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples.
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>36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
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>37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
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>38. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
>because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (sorta obvious)
>
>39. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't
>considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's
>Flight Simulator.
-CaptainTrivia |
