Things You Should Know ...

But probably do not.


All right, everyone get their champagne and raisins out ...!

  1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
  2. The dot over the letter i is called a “tittle”.
  3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  4. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
  5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  6. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
  7. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
  8. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
  9. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
  10. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
  11. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
  12. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  13. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  14. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
  15. 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.
  16. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
  17. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  18. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
  19. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
  20. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
  21. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
  22. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience ... well, that comes from poor judgement ... Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

 

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