Subject: Fw: Interesting but Useless Facts

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" (not title, but 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 is 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 off to jail."

I disagree with the last. Martha Stewart is one of today's top ten menaces to society.

Susan Lucci and Phyllis Diller are NOT related.

Shirly MacLaine and Warren Beatty are, though.

And the part about the Shatner mask is true.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

Holy Shit!

If people keep sending around this email at some point more of these "facts" will become true through sheer repetition and Bill Gates will give us each a free pony.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

Can someone verify this? How exciting.

By the way, #1 and #2 are a weird fit, because #1 assumes that something made out of cotton cannot be said to be made out of paper, and yet #2 insists that something made out of hemp can be said to be made out of a hemp paper. Huh.

Wow that sounded dickish.

35) The wino picks odd things to get pissed about, must be all that white port he drank this morning.

Here's a random fansite about the Wendy thing (google cache):

The fact that he had no children of his own, didn't stop him from meeting children. One of these was a 4-year-old girl called argaret who called Barrie "my friendy". Because she couldn't pronounce her "r"'s, the word "friendy" often sounded like "fwendy" or "wendy". She died when she was 6 but Barrie immortalised her in Peter Pan by calling his heroine Wendy. Barie did not create the name Wendy, but he certainly popularized it. A few girls were called Wendy in the 19th century. It appears to have been derived from Gwendolyn. Surprisingly, it was also used a boy's name, I'm not sure what the boy's name was derived from. [SDSTAFF Czarcasm] Thus while Barie did create the name, the huge popularity of his Peter Pan books made Wendy an emensely popular name for girls in both Britain and America.

Lies, all lies, as far as the eye can see!

I thought "Wendy" was originally a diminutive of "Wendigo."

I thought "Wendy" was originally a diminutive of "Wendigo."
posted by Hugh Janus 13 January | 11:44

I sentence thee to watch the film Ravenous. And rejoice!
(It's a fave flick of mine.)

I thought it was a derivative of Gwendolyn.

Fun. Thanks, shane.

I believe (U.S.) currency notes are made of a combination of cotton and paper, not just cotton as stated.

hm, the constitution wasn't written on hemp. There was an askme about it recently. So that throws all the rest of the 'forward facts' into doubt. Not that there wasn't doubt before.

The constitution was written on my thigh.

Until I showered last month, at least.

Money is made of paper. 100lb. bond with 33% rag(cotton).

Motorola did not make a record player for automobiles. It started in the 20's as Galvin Manufacturing and changed to Motorola when bought by GM for it's car radios.

I especially like the ones with the exclamation points.

Yay for Ravenous! - Shane, have you seen Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)?

Yay for Ravenous! - Shane, have you seen Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)?

Love it!