Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickle the company once had.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it
will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an
albino.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.!
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system.
A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they
could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to
Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in
California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their
shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in First Class.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a
game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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 lower case letters.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver
