Strange things you didn't 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.

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

- 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 (and Heston's wearing a watch).

- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

(That explains a few mysteries....)

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

- 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.

- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

- If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will

instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who 

discovered this??)

- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down

so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

- 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 - Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

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

- By raising your legs slowly and lying 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.

- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman

to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from public libraries.

- The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!