RE: Betcha didnt know

[Guest guest]

I had a ball reading this...had no idea Phyllis Diller was

Luccis mother....Kathi in OK

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number

of varieties

of

pickle the company once had.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every

two weeks

otherwise it will digest itself.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp

paper.

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

Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and

cannot find a mate.

In October, a Redondo Beach, Calif., police officer

arrested a driver

after a short chase and charged him with drunk

driving. Officer ph

Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the

white Mazda

MX-7rollingdown Pacific Coast Highway with half of a

traffic-light pole,

including the lights, lying across its hood. The

driver had hit the pole

on a median strip and simply kept driving. According

to Fonteno, when the

driver was asked about the pole, he said, " It came

with the car when I

bought it. "

40% of Mc's profits come from the sales of Happy

Meals.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had a

red eyes. He was

albino.

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.

Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of

Abraham Lincoln's son.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and

sister.

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs

heart and nervous

system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.

Boone detested coonskin caps.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.

If captured, they

could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map

for escape.

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.

Duck comics were banned from Finland because he

doesn't wear

pants.

Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it

sounded like Sue-ice.

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.

During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent

their laundry to

Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the

extremely high costs in

California during these boom years it was deemed more

feasible to send

the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

Because metal was scarce, the s given out during

World War II were

made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four

moves per side in a

game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

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 numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S.

$5 dollar bill in

the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin

during World War II

killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back

of a $10 dollar

bill.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him

10 years to paint

Mona 's lips.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion,

it will instantly go

mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a

film down so you

could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

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 first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's

'Born in the USA'

The mask used by Myers in the original

Halloween was actually a

Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

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.

Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back,

you can't sink in

quicksand.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories

to eat a piece of

celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie

Chaplin look alike

contest.

In Gulliver's Travels Swift described the two

moons of Mars,

Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds

of rotation. He did

this more than 100 years before either moon was

discovered.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from

crying.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said Elementary, my dear .

An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a

woman to take more

than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified

kosher.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being

the book most often

stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go

into space because

passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

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.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.