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40 Things You Might Not Know :
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1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
8. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
10. Every person has a unique tongue print.
11. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
12. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
13. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
14. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
18. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
21. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
24. 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.
25. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
27. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
28. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
29. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a dollar.
31. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
35. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
39. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
40. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer was not considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's
Flight Simulator.
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EastCoastStar
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very interesting 
i thought (number 2), it wsa for their 57 varieties...?? thats what i heard,
and number 9... isnt all true, i know that for a fact, 40% comes from FRENCH FRY sales, and 40% from coca cola sales, and 20% from the burgers and everything else.
and 25, i know thats true! ive been there! haha
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@ecs - Maybe the report on McDonald's was made in 1940's 
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fatreg
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as for the ducks quack, its because its not loud enough, it doesnt vibrate enought to reverberate off walls or whatever.
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methylated_spirit
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ducks quacks do echo.
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fatreg
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didnt think they did meths?
some strange old fact i thought?
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leeboy13
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ive never heard one echo...... only on ducktales!
But seriously i dont think they do |
methylated_spirit
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Its an old wives tale, never mind a ducktale hehe. Seriously, why would a ducks quack not echo? Its only vibrating air, like every other sound on earth.
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/schools/lesson5/lesson1p2d.htm
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Hello, Scroto!
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fatreg
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get you smarty pants meths! 
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leeboy13
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ahhhh i see now, so it does echo just not loud enough to hear....
So lets say for example if there was a duck 6ft tall with mamouth voical cords - would we then hear his echo? not taking the mickey, just wondering if its something to do with the ducks abillity to hit certain pitches or whether its becuase they constantly whisper? |
methylated_spirit
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hehe Yeah, a six foot tall duck would make some echo! And, if you grafted a laser beam onto its head, it would a fearsome killing machine that i could use to terrorize the peasants in my realm!
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leeboy13
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 lmao, finally something to make me smile! hahahaha
maybe we start start a thread - 'animals at war - whos the strongest' using their size and mobillity, this can help us determine with which weapon, whcih animal is the strongest....... up for it meths and anyone else? rather than spoiling this thread which is actually quite interesting.....
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methylated_spirit
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Hell yeah!
Hello, Scroto!
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JK
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The same is true of most
domestic tiger cats.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
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Guff!
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