1. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of
mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
(YUCK!)
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.(who leaves
chompers in their glass long enough to find out?)
4. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat
and cannot find a mate
(I know some people like that!)
5. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
6. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the
wrong parents daily!
(I knew it !)
7. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear pants.
8. There are no words in the dictionary that
rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
9. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter
Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
10.The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on
Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in
the Berlin Zoo.
11. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting
itself to death.
(Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
12. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had
to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
13. 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.
14. By raising your legs slowly and laying on
your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. (GOOD
FACT TO REMEMBER?? )
15. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a
Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest.
16. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep
you from crying.
17. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my
dear Watson".
18. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record
for being the book most often stolen from Public
Libraries.
19. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans
before they go into space because passing wind in
a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the
other drawbacks to farting in such a confined
space....)
20. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
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