Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars 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.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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?)
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.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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.
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.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
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.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
EMU’s and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck’s quack does not echo, and no one knows why.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The only man-made structure visible from space is the
Great Wall of China.
A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
A shrimp’s heart is in it’s head.
Most car horns honk in the key of ‘F’.
People say ‘Bless you’ when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
The most common name in world is Mohammed.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
Most people button their shirt upwards.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23% of all photocopier breakdowns are caused by people sitting on them while photocopying their rears.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.
More than half the people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
