THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON’T…
1 . Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp
(marijuana) 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. < BR>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 and grapes will cause damage
to their kidneys.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark’s 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 wit h 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 and 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 oldEnglish
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 a llowed to eat beans before they go into
space because passing wind in a space suit damages it. I NEED TO
REMEMBER THIS!
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.”
Are you naming your pets after operas again….
Had I had the free time to check each and every item on snopes, I wouldn’t have wasted my time, I woulda went fishing, since so many others have enough time to fact check everything why bother? 
