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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 7-UP 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, multitasking 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 DaVinci 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. OJ Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; 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




Keep #30 in mind the next time you are cooking.

thanks for those.. inter-resting

I've heard this many times but people SWEAR it is not true.

hey, nice thread....here are 50 things i found out, and apparently was not supposed to know....there is a book on this "50 things you are not supposed to know"...but, i'll be sure to give details on a subject if you'd like...

01 The Ten Commandments We AlwaysSee Aren't the Ten Commandments
02 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
03 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
04 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
05 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply
06 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
07 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
08 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
09 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
10 World War III Almost Started in 1995
11 The Korean War Never Ended
12 Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
13 Kent State Wasn't the Only — or Even the First — Massacre of College Students During the
Vietnam Era
14 Winston Churchill Believed ina Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
16 Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
17 Around One Quarter of "Witches" Were Men
18 The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army
21 Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
22 Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
23 The Police Aren't Legally Obligated to Protect You
24 The Government Can Take Your House andLand, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You'reAllowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If
You're an Addict
26 The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
27 Most Scientists Don't Read All of the Articles They Cite
28 Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn't Support His Theories
29 The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
30 Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
31 The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
32 Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
33 Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
34 Most Doctors Don't Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
35 Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
36 Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
37 Work Kills More People Than War
38 The Suicide Rate IsHighest Among the Elderly
39 For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
41 An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
42 The Bayer Company Made Heroin
43 LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
44 Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
45 One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
46 The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
47 The Word "Squaw" Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
48 You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
49 Advertisers' Influence onthe News Media Is Widespread
50 The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

WOW!!! Now I know 84 more things!! A few I already knew, like the rule of thumb-my dad jokes about that one!! But thank you ladies for the awesome info!!

Cool and very interesting facts. Thank you for sharing!

Phyllis Diller and Susan Lucci Related?
Posted Friday, December 24, 1999 - 8:32:53 PM


There's no denying that the Internet is possibly one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. As we move into the next millennium, the speed at which people can exchange information will increase.


One of the downfalls of this ease of communication is the spreading of mistruths and falsehoods. Urban Legends have been part of American culture for some time. Now that the 'net is here, there are more outlets for people to spread these stories.


No one's sure exactly when or where this All My Children rumor first popped up, though it seems to have first popped up in the early part of the 1980s. Fans of All My Children started hearing word that Susan Lucci --- famous in her own right --- was the daughter of another famous woman: Phyllis Diller. Some time later, the story was augmented to include soap veteran Robin Strasser. Strasser, best known as One Life to Live's Dorian Lord, was said to be Lucci's sister.


In the five years that The AMC Pages have been online, we've received the occasional question about these three women's ties. In the past two weeks, however, we've been inundated with mail on this subject. We came to the conclusion that someone had either posted the tale on the web site or in Email thinking that the story was true or, more likely, someone posted the message to dupe other fans.


Let there be no mistake: Susan Lucci and Phyllis Diller are not related. According to sources, the two women have not even met. Lucci and Strasser, though, are a lot closer --- because both All My Children and One Life to Live are filmed across the street from each other at ABC's sprawling studio complex in Manhattan. But they are not relatives.

I knew there was a reason I don't like to wear lipstick!

<<<< rushes to frig to get celery....looks like this will be the new diet!

The smallest muscle in your body is inside your ear.. it's about the thickness of a piece of cotton.


Did you know that there are 639 muscles in the human body?


The largest muscle is in your bum cheek


The strongest muscle in your body is apparently your tongue. (well I know it's MINE! haha)

More useless trivia about Leonarda DaVinci: He didn't give the Mona Lisa to the patron who commissioned it, he kept it himself and took it with him everywhere he lived after that. Or so I heard, haven't checked it.

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

hahaha

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it)



2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it)

Well you would be o.k. in a power strike girly

hahaha.. enuff to light a bulb perhaps

Yes by the dashboard lights no doubt!

Where is that goose?

claayer naughty naughty,you might give the wrong,
impression, but what ever turns you on.

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




wow

new study shows speaking english will kill you