Did You Know…? July 10, 2009
Posted by Herb in : 1 , trackbackMoney isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter ‘I’ is called a ‘title.’
A raisin dropped in fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom to the top of the glass.
Man is the only animal known who goes to bed when he isn’t sleepy and gets up when he is.
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The 7-UP ’spot’ comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Warren Beatty and Shirley McLain are brother and sister.
Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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