Did You Know...........???

SOME "UNKNOWN" FACTS

*A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

*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. (I know some people like that!)

*A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

*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.

*On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!

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

*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.

*The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.

*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.

*Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

*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 the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

*Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

*By raising your legs slowly and laying 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.

*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

*Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

*An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

*The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

*The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

*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 drawback.

*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

I can't vouch for the validity of these facts....but it certainly was some interesting reading!!!!