Things you probaly don't know.

Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

The dot over the '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.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

In 1996, 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary were misspelled.

The 'spot' on 7-UP comes from the inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (I was, once.)

Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

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

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

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.

Scuba divers tank valves are known as a 'J' valve (with a 5 minute reserve lever) and a 'K' valve (without the reserve lever). They were called the 'J' and 'K' valve because in the Sears and Roebuck catalog, one was 'item J' the other was 'item k'.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Hence, multitasking was invented.

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

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

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

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and it will sting itself to death.
The used mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you won't sink in quicksand.

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.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has to begin with. It's the same with apples.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

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

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

George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. 'Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. OJ Simpson, Kobe Bryant and Osama Bin Laden are still walking around, 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'