40 Random Things you probably didn't know until now

40 things you may not have known before today.

1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made
out of cotton. (Thats why its so soft lol)

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had. (mmm..pickles)

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it would digest itself. (I heard this on the radio)

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. (I got this from my history teacher)

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle." (My father told me this one)

6. A raisin dropped in a glass of freshchampagne 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. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

12. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

14. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

15. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLain are brother and sister.

16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

18. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.

20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

21. 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.

22 Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10
years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

28. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

29. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was
a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

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. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).

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. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

34. 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.

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. 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 game.

40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into
space because passing wind in a space suit damages them


I am tired of arguing with the Element. I have no iPhone, so please don't post about it. I got these from various places. If you think I stole, that fine, I didn't. So here is the credits:

50% Me (Posting, thinking of about 23 of these
39% The rest of my random life
11% The Element (for being a harassment to this forum) ​

 

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!

That is false.

 

No it is not it is true... google it

 

Very interesting and a good read, thank you^

 

25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

False.
There were Wendys recorded in the early 1800's, Peter Pan simply made the name popular.

 

8. A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.

I Google'd this. Apparently it's false. Didn't do much research, though, so who knows. xD

 

No, that's true.. there are a lot of vegetables where that's true actually... It's not negative, it's just that the celery, say, has 6 calories and it takes 5 to chew and 5 to digest, putting you at -4 calories or so...

 

Interested facts.

 

Some of these I knew from posts related like this in other forums,however the celery having negative calories made me "wha?"
Good read though.

 

the Ben Hur and the red car is false and is a urban legend..

 

I knew about the celery, but are you sure about apples? Fruit usually has sugar which is caloric.

 

All of these are false.

A duck's quack does echo, Myth Buster proven.

Nope.

There are in the "Employees Only" rooms.

Peter Pan only made the name popular.

It may try to sting the bubbly stuff on it's back, but a scorpion cannot accidentally kill itself. It is immune to it's own (and other scorpions of the same family) poison.

That's good practice, but it only makes you sink slower. It doesn't stop you.

There is no way chewing gum will stop the gases in the onions that make you cry from interacting with your eye.


But the rest was an interesting read.

 

huh.... didnt know about #20, i guess ive been self medicating for a while now.

 

I knew some of the things on this list, but not most. Very interesting

 

16. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

This is false also, I give my medium sized dog chocolate all the time, it's 12 years old and still living.

 

Exactly what I was going to say, lol.

 

In large quantities it does and yes for a fact chocolate can kill a dog.

 

Um..... Chocolate is like poison for dogs.... That isn't false.

 

How come my friend's dog died when he gave him chocolate?


That is 100% true.

 

Good read. Some i had to read twice because i was like "wtf"?