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. 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 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 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 and purple.
 
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 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 off to jail."

Man, I'm going to sound smart at the dinner table tonight.

didn't know that about onions but I do know sticking your head in the freezer stops the tearing haahaa (OK used to be a walk in freezer at work.... but it works at home too :o )