Friday, October 15, 2010

very few people know these!

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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.


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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. YUCK!


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The dot over the letter " i " is called a tittle.




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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. SHOULD BE A WONDERFUL SIGHT!!


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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.


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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.




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A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. I KNOW U GUYS WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THIS !




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During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.


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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! BE CAREFUL WHEN ITS UR TURN!






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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. STUPID PEOPLE!






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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.


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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.










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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.






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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.










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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.










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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??




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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the normal.....today.




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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".


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The original name for butterfly was flutterby.




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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.WHAT???






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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.




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Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.








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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? Maybe next time...














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Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.


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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.








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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".






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An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. ???






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The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.




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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries






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