Did you Know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks or it will digest itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce
up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot
find a mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1\/2″ by 3-1\/2″.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can
be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents
daily! (That explains a few mysteries…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he
doesn’t wear pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World
War II were made of wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves
per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564, 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with
orange, purple and silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
There was never a recorded Wendy before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it
will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist
who discovered this??)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w
film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’ s
“Born in the USA.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
20. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record
player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the
market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you
cannot sink into quicksand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
24. Celery has negative calories It takes more calories to eat
a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a
woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the
book most often stolen from public libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into
space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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