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Friday, December 5, 2008

32 Strange Things You Couldn't Have Known...

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucusevery two weeks or it will digest itself.

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

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagnewill bounce up and down continuously from the bottomof the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat andcannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small redcar can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearinga watch).

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrongparents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finlandbecause he doesn't wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given outduring World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the firstfour moves per side in a game of chess is318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhymewith orange, purple and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book PeterPan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies onBerlin in World War II killed the only elephant in theBerlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on ascorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself todeath. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had tos-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That'sthe opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was BruceSpringsteen's "Born in the USA."

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an oldEnglish law which stated that you couldn't beat yourwife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop wasa record player for automobiles. At that time, themost known player on the market was Victrola, so theycalled themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on yourback, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes morecalories to eat a piece of celery than the celery hasin it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a CharlieChaplin look-alike contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep youfrom crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dearWatson."

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made itillegal for a woman to take more than three stepsbackwards while dancing!

29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from publiclibraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans beforethey go into space because passing wind in a spacesuitdamages them.

32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

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