"Unknown" Facts

There are some facts you might not know.

• 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.