Did You Know? ...

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it
will digest itself.
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. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a
mate.
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2x4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in
the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
world
wide!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were
made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in
a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and
silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a
recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly
go mad and sting itself to death.
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA".
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. 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.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola,
so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink
into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. For fun, Charlie Chaplin once entered anonymously a "Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest", and won third prize.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
28. An old law in Bellingham,Washington, made it illegal for a woman to
take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
32. In the movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again
Sam". What he said was "If you can play it for her you can play it for me,
so play it".
33. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
34. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
35. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
36. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
37. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
40. Horses can't vomit.
41. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
42. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress
a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If
you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
43. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.
44. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
45. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,
Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,
1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
46. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
47. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on
them and photocopying their butts.
48. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
49. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
and lastly...
50. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.