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1. Money isn't made out of paper,  it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
3. The dot over the letter I is called a "tittle."
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.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from  the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996  Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot ' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes.
   He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be  given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system;
      a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
      shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales. (eeww)
14 . Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
      wearpants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. 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.
17. Leonardo DaVinci could write with one hand and draw with the other
     at the same time. (Hence, multitasking was invented.)
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during
     World War II were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan;
     there was never a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with:
    orange, purple, and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint
    Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion  will make it instantly
      go mad and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween"
      was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
25. 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 (good to know).
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
    in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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!
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the Book
    most often stolen from Public Libraries.
33. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart . "Boy, I feel
    a Lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant
    are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE
    woman in America willing to cook,  clean, and work in the yard, and they
    haul her tail off to  jail."

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