Well guys i've posted this before but that was way back when gamerenders had like 40k members so I thought since people liked it a lot id post again anyway heree it is enjoi! Just one of those emails you want to delete, but you can't find a reason to. 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"!!!
It did not take him 10 years of constant work to paint the lips. The Mona Lisa was his practise peice. He would rarely work on it.
you do realize those facts are worldwide, not just in america, right? In the world atleast 1 million babies are born a day (think about it... there are 1,000 millions in 1 billion, the world population is about 6-8 billion (hell if i know for sure, but i know its more than 6)... with our current population in the world, that seems about right). Thats 0.0012% of the babies are misplaced in the world. Not hard to believe at all. EDIT: lol caje got it before me when I was looking up the average amount of newborns in a day
yah i posted these in general discussion long time ago when i first came to the site lots of new members gives everyone else a chance to see
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. I definatly didn't know that one!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Which hand did which? 1. Not true. It's made out of linen . 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! How? Simply moving in any manner whatsoever makes you "lose" calories.... if you mean that Celery has 0 calories, that makes sense, but you can't "gain" calories from movement... you REALLY couldn't... unless you are eating something at the same time.
