Did you know that........ 1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton. 2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had. 3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. 5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle". 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. 8. A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why. 9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 10. Every person has a unique tongue print 11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. 12. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. 13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 14. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. 15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. 16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog. 17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 18. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 21. 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. 22. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before! 26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver! 27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. 28. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 29. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white. 30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless). 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. 33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. 34. 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 Motorola 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! 36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! 37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record... for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 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 game. 40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. I can't believe I have made it this far in life... unaware of some of these facts!
Ducks Quacks DO echo, it's just that the echo dissipated very quickly due to the unique sound wave length of the quack, Mythbusters did it
Kind of true, Wendy was used before this in a limited fashion as a short form of Gwendolyn, JM Barrie got the name from a little girl he befriended who called him her 'fwendy wendy'. Rather sadly she died aged 6 ....
^Nice This list has been making the rounds for years now. I imagine most folks have heard all of these trivia tidbits before and know which ones have turned out to be less than true. Maybe it's time to update the list?
The Heinz one is BS, 57 was selected as the numbers were important to the boss, and the whole x varieties thing was for marketing purposes alone.
Here's one they missed: The name for the Lubricant WD-40, was given due to amount of attempts its inventor made to create it WD-40 = Water Displacement 40th try
Nice try....the inventor liked meeting females via personal ads. WD-40 is an abbreviation for his favorite type of potential lover: Wacky Dame, 40 years old.
Did you know... a number of U.S. airmen during World War II died of farts? Intestinal gas expands several hundred percent in an unpressurized aircraft flying at high altitude. Some of the first soldiers fighting for the Germans at Normandy were Koreans? The Koreans had been captured by the Japanese in the Far East. Some Koreans were then captured by the Soviets in skirmishes with the Japanese. These Koreans were transferred to European Russia (so they had no hope of returning home) and forced to work for the Soviets. These Koreans were then captured by the Germans during the invasion of the Soviet Union (and transferred to France, well away from the Soviet Union). The Koreans were then captured at Normandy by allied forces.
MythBusters proved recently that this is untrue though the quack's echo is so faint and blends with subsequent quacks so well that you don't hear it.
