Things You Didn't Know (nothing funny just interesting)

[Studlover (imported)]

Not necessarily funny, but interesting.

1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down

continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The spot on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will

kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the sharks

stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14 . Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear

pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. 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.

17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at

the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented.

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were

made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a

recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,

and silver.

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint

Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad an

sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain

Kirk's mask painted white.

25. 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 (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in

quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often

stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart . "Boy, I feel a lot

safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still

walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America

willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to

jail."

[radar (imported)]

Please, people -- number 27 is, and always was, entirely false. "Rule of Thumb" had to do with using the thumb as a measurement tool when making things, like furniture. The only known legal reference to any such rule as the paragraph proposes was when one judge, in one case in the 1600's mentioned such a rule as having existed sometime in the past. But he never included a citation, and despite exhaustive research, legal scholars have never, EVER discovered a record of any such law, rule, or custom throughout the long history of either American law or English common law (upon which U.S. law is based). Indeed, both traditions have had strong and long-standing prohibitions against wife beating.

So this definition of "Rule of Thumb" is a total feminist fabrication. If you see a list like this that includes this definition, please delete that reference. Don't persist in passing along a lie, because a lie that is big enough, and repeated often enough, soon becomes accepted as truth, and becomes the basis for all manner of societal mischief.

[numnuts (imported)]

And Susan Lucci is NOT the daugher of Phyllis Diller. That's an urban legend.

[Studlover (imported)]

And Susan Lucci is NOT the daugher of Phyllis Diller. That's an urban legend.

numnuts and radar: thank you for the corrections.

Studlover

[Riverwind (imported)]

Claim:Actress Susan Lucci is the daughter of comedienne Phyllis Diller.

Status: False.

Origins: Rumors that some well-known actor or actress is really the child of an equally prominent but unlikely parent have long been a feature of the motion picture industry. Indeed, wild tales about the questionable ancestry of famous people are found all throughout history. Whereas historical examples of this phenomenon were often attempts to discredit the subject (frequently a political figure) by associating him with someone despised by the public, the "movie star" rumors are generally little more than entertainment concocted to amuse by associating a star with a "parent" who is the opposite in appearance or personality.

http://www.answers.com/topic/susan-lucci

Great list, keep them coming,

River

[colin (imported)]

Not necessarily funny, but interesting.

1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

Just to contradict, folding money IS made from paper. However, paper can be made from many different sources. Originally it was the papyrus reed, but wood pulp, cotton; wool, flax, silk etc can be used. In fact any material which has a long 'staple' can be used to produce a form of paper.

LOL

[emasculateme (imported)]

Also, t

he Declaration of Independence was written on

parchment, not hemp paper...i just saw a special on how they are trying to preserve it on the History Channel or similar channel.