Things you may not have known

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freak4mobiles

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Post #1110 December 2004, 00:28
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Really Can you compile a list of false statements from it.

xna22zai

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Post #1210 December 2004, 05:55

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Things You May Not Have Known
·Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
·The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
·Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
·The Declaration of Independence was written on h**p paper.
·The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
·A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
·Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
·A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
·40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
·Every person has a unique tongue print.
·315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
·During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
·On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
·Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
·Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
·Most lipstick contains fish scales.
·Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
·Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
·Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
·Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
·American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
·Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
·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.
·There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
·There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
·The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
·Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
·If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
·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.
·The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
·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.
·The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for auto mobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
·By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
·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.
·Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
·The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
·Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (sorta obvious)
·Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

whew! i hate scrolling down but this kind of info made me really curious that i scrooled and have read every word!
tnx for such great info mate!
keep it up!
you can be an encyclopedic zedger....

freak4mobiles

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Post #1310 December 2004, 15:32
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Really Can you compile a list of false statements from it.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (oh really?)
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.(it does have an echo, but the quack itself sounds like one so it's hardly noticeable)
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.(I used to give my dog chocolate and he is not dead yet)
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.(dolphins do that, not orcas)
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!(you english ppl should know better. There are words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.)
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!(it doesn't work. Have you ever tried this?)
Thats really cool.

Johnnybrasco21

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Post #1410 December 2004, 17:55
Marlboro used to be owned by the k**k.The old Marlboro packets used to have a k on the front a k on the lid and a k on the back. If you look at the pack now they still have a k on the back and k on the front.Some packs depending on what part of the world your from still have the 3 k's. A bit of useless info you lot might have not known

uzziedaman

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Post #1510 December 2004, 18:18
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Really Can you compile a list of false statements from it.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!(you english ppl should know better. There are words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver.)

Can you tell some words that rhyme with these words then ? :?

Mindsweeper809

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Post #1612 June 2006, 00:37
i found this very informative..hehe..

avs5

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Post #1712 June 2006, 02:26
I remember this:

There are only four words in the dictionary that ends in :ous. Gregarious, humurous, rendezvous and I forgot the other one.

AugieMarch

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Post #1812 June 2006, 02:47
The facts are always been concealed !

afeexx

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Post #1912 June 2006, 02:56
her first name

daydreamin

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Post #2012 June 2006, 06:40
interesting!.. but some things i really dont think are true.

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