40 Things You May Not Know



-otherwise it will digest itself (eeww).

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.



7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

8. A duck's quack doesn't echo .. no one knows why.

9. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

10. Every person has a unique tongue print (no licking at the scene of a crime!).

11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

12. The 'spot' on 7 UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.



15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.



18. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

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

20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.


22. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ( ... and multi-tasking was invented).


24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.






30. 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 ... ).

31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completly useless).

32. 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 (sign of a true civilized society . not).

33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.


35. 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! (guess what I'm buying on my next trip to the grocery store!)


37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.


39. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game.

40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them (families taking long car rides should adopt this same policy).