Things you probably don't know

[OceanCityGirl]

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T!!!


1 . Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
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. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
16. 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.
17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
the same time . hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a
recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad
and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
25. 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 (good to know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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!
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel a lot
safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still
walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in
America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her
fanny off to jail."

[CaptainP]

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittie".

[OceanCityGirl]

i knew this was the one line that would get noticed.
You said tittle

[davesnik]

What a great list! Thanks for sharing!

[OceanCityGirl]

I almost never post one of those things you know are everywhere but this had some really cool facts on it.

[ParrotHeadDeb]

I almost never post one of those things you know are everywhere but this had some really cool facts on it.

Susan Lucci is Phyllis Diller's daughter?!! Never heard that before!

[bravedave]

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.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
kill a small sized dog.
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.

4. Only until the Champagne loses its fizz. Otherwise cars would run on a hybrid-Champagne motor forever.
11. About one ounce of chocolate per seven pounds of body weight is considered toxic (my dog is good for a couple, OK ten, hershey bars)
21. Also: month
22. That's 15 months less than it takes Sandra Bullock.

[ragtopW]

i knew this was the one line that would get noticed.
You said tittle

OK what is a Jot???


As in not one Jot or Tittle?

[bravedave]

i knew this was the one line that would get noticed.
You said tittle

OK what is a Jot???


As in not one Jot or Tittle?

The word "Jot" comes from iota, which is the Greek letter I.

[ragtopW]

i knew this was the one line that would get noticed.
You said tittle

OK what is a Jot???


As in not one Jot or Tittle?

The word "Jot" comes from iota, which is the Greek letter I.

Which only now makes sense Thanks..

[CaptainP]

I almost never post one of those things you know are everywhere but this had some really cool facts on it.

Susan Lucci is Phyllis Diller's daughter?!! Never heard that before!

No she isn't.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm

[Prthd119]

I almost never post one of those things you know are everywhere but this had some really cool facts on it.

Susan Lucci is Phyllis Diller's daughter?!! Never heard that before!

No she isn't.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm

I knew that one..some of the others aren't true...but entertaining!

That one about Susan Lucci has been circulating for years.....

[OceanCityGirl]

i had never heard the lucci rumour but I love snopes.
About the dog and chocolate. I think they live if they puke and poop it out, which our dog did when he ate the whole box of baseball team candy.

[Coconuts]

I've always heard that it's an ounce of chocolate per pound of animal- if I ate almost 7 pounds of chocolate, I would be very ill too!

[OceanCityGirl]

7 up founder an albino not true according to snopes.

[Burny Charles]

An acronym is an abbreviation creating a word out of the first letters of a phrase.
For Example: FEMA, pronounced as fema

An intialism is an abbreviation in which the first letters of each word are stated.
For example ASPCA, pronounced A S P C A

Both are ways of shortening a phrase, therefore making it quicker to say.

The letter W is the only letter that has more than one syllable

Therefore, the intialism of WWW takes more than twice as long to say than the time it would take to actually say what it stands for.

[Wino you know]

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel a lot
safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still
walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in
America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her
fanny off to jail."

AMEN!!!!!!!

[Sidew13]

i knew this was the one line that would get noticed.
You said tittle

OK what is a Jot???


As in not one Jot or Tittle?

as in the Bible
very good Wayne

[RinglingRingling]

7 up founder an albino not true according to snopes.

no, just hopeless drunk with really blood-shot eyes.

[ToplessRideFL]

I almost never post one of those things you know are everywhere but this had some really cool facts on it.

Susan Lucci is Phyllis Diller's daughter?!! Never heard that before!

Claim: Actress Susan Lucci is the daughter of comedienne Phyllis Diller.
Status: False.

Origins: Rumors that some well-known actor or actress is really the child of an equally prominent but unlikely parent have long been a feature of the motion picture industry. Indeed, wild tales about the questionable ancestry of famous people are found all throughout history. Whereas historical examples of this phenomenon were often attempts to discredit the subject (frequently a political figure) by associating him with someone despised by the public, the "movie star" rumors are generally little more than entertainment concocted to amuse by associating a star with a "parent" who is the opposite in appearance or personality.

So, in this case we have the beautiful Susan Lucci, who has played supervixen Erica Kane on TV's "All My Children" for nearly thirty years posited as the daughter of wacky comedienne Phyllis Diller, known for her trademark frazzled hair and facelift jokes. What better amusing contrast than one between a glamorous soap opera actress and a comedienne known for her self-deprecating jokes about her decidedly unglamorous appearance?

Although their ages don't preclude their being mother and daughter, Phyllis Diller and Susan Lucci are not related. Phyllis Driver was born in Ohio in 1917 and married Sherwood Diller in 1939; they had five children together before divorcing in 1965, none of whom was Susan Lucci (who was born in New York in 1946).

A somewhat more plausible rumor suggested that Susan Lucci was the sister of Robin Strasser, an actress who starred on TV's "One Life to Live" playing Dorian Lord, a "character you love to hate role" similar to Lucci's Erica Kane. (Strasser also portrayed Christina Karras on "All My Children" with Lucci for a time.) This "two actresses playing similar roles at the same time are related" rumor is equally spurious.