Did You Know... - Tom Elseroad

Did You Know...

	Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. Every person has a unique tongue print. 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 MacLaine are brother and sister. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing 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. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 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 the 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 smaller, 'lower case' letters. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'. 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. Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said Elementary, my dear Watson. An old law in Bellingham, Wash, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.