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 7-UP 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 you back, you can't
sink
in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
32. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from 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.
40 things you might not know
by Soledad 16 Replies latest social humour
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Soledad
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defd
great topic and I like the one about the gas passing astronauts
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Big Dog
I love useless facts stuff.
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startingover
Funny how a person can read stuff like this and kind of accept it as fact without really checking anything out as it is trivial stuff that really doesn't matter that much.One thing struck me though and I checked it out:
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Big Dog
Where can you check out the Snopes accuracy, someone told me they listed their sources but I never see any sources listed. I have read some stuff from their website and I'm not convinced they aren't hacks themselves.
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daystar
startingover
I tend to disbelieve anything like this that I read. I used to respond to every email I got like this, debunking it through snopes. Eventually, people just stopped emailing me. I guess they thought I was being a jerk by actually not taking these things at face value and making them look like they're gullible.
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Soledad
One thing struck me though and I checked it out:
ah ha! I knew it! Even I thought that was too strange to be true.
Anyhow useless facts are just that: useless. Great fun to read but is any of it really true? *shrugs*
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Big Dog
I mean, everybody treats Snopes.com like the burning bush, I'm a little skeptical of their omincient powers of myth busting. Can someone please point out on their site where they list their sources, I can't seem to find it.
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daystar
bigdog
It really depends upon what snopes is debunking. Something like whether Susan Lucci is the Daughter of Phyllis Diller is fairly straightforward.
Something like whether Swiffer Wetjets pose a danger to household pets comes with a source or two. - http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/swiffer.asp
I have double checked snopes' info on a handful of random occasions and have always found them accurate.
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daystar
Big dog
Also (begin Darth Vader voice) ................. Your lack of faith is disturbing