40 fun facts you prolly didn't know nor did yah need to! anyway here they are guys lots are funny few i knew lol anyway here heres 40 fun fcats you probably didn't know nor did you need to.... lol some are hilarious tell me if you laughed when your done reading =) 1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton. 2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had. 3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. 5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle". 6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. 8. A duck's quack doesn't echo .. no one knows why. 9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 10. Every person has a unique tongue print 11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. 12. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. 13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 14. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance 15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. 16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog. 17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 18. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 21. 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. 22. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. 25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before! 26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver! 27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. 28. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 29. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white. 30. 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. 31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless). 32. 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. 33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. 34. 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. 35. 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! 36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! 37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. 38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 39. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game.. 40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. I can't believe I have made it this far in life unaware of these "facts"!!! heres some more there may be a few that are the same as the 1's above!! Coca-Cola was originally green. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Women blink nearly twice as much as men! You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. It is impossible to lick your elbow. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A snail can sleep for three years. All polar bears are left handed. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
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5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle". 21. 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. Knew that one 26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver! Uh... turtle rhymes with purple.
17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. wOOt!
'8. A duck's quack doesn't echo .. no one knows why.' actually it does I watched a science program on it and there is a very slight echo just humans are incapable of hearing it some of those facts I knew already but usefull to read
