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THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T...

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

  1. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

  2. The dot over the letter i is called a 'tittle'.

  1. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

  2. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

  1. 40% of Mc Donald 's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

  2. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

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

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

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

  2. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small-sized dog.

  1. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

  2. Most lipstick contains fish scales

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

  2. 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.

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

  2. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

  1. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

  2. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

  1. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

  2. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

  1. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have .19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand

  2. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with a stick 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.

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

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

  1. "Guinness Book of Records" holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public Libraries.

  2. 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."
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ME-Judy
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I'm not sure if I should be proud - or embarrassed - by how many of those things I know. Most I know, some I didn't, and some I would check for their facturacy. (See? It's a perfectly cromulent word!)

Doc

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Dr. Zachary Smith

Um, Phyllis has a daughter named Suzanne. That's as close as they come to being related. And I'd agree that there are a number of those "facts" that likely ain't, if you research them......like the "negative calorie" concept. Scientifically (unfortunately), there are no foods that burn more calories in the eating than they contain.

(A loving God, had he designed a universe that included foods that burn more calories to eat than they contain, would have made that apply to chocolate. Since it doesn't, we can extrapolate that *no* food works in this fashion.

Or, we can just listen to the scientists. But the above is more fun. :)

--pig

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Listpig

I know a good number of the list entries to be true (so far as anyone can know such a t hing) and others I know nothing of, but I did a paper about soda pop during my college years and know this fact to be true:

A common urban legend about Charles Leiper Grigg is that he was an albino, and that the red dot on the bottle is supposed to represent his red eyes. In fact there are no official references to Grigg having been an albino, and in (black-and-white) photographs his eyes appear normally pigmented. Also, the 7-up logo with the red dot came into use in the 1970s, after Grigg had died.[3]

Cheers and thanks for a good chuckle list, Sunny

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onetexsun

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