Useful Facts

[PhilCooper@webtv.net (Philip Cooper)]

Things everyone should know.....
  
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't
give her coffee.   

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
  
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in
the sauce.
  
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise 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
continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. 
For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry
tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it.  As soon as a
drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite
taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.  Try it!   
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles  
away.
  
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
  
Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
  
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
  
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar
with Midnight Cowboy.  Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
  
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  
Every person has a unique tongue print.
  
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes.  He was
albino.
  
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles
(jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with
legs dangling, fall asleep.
  
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in 
the distance.
  
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought
he might be retarded.
  
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's
son.
  
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
  
Chocolate kills dogs!  True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and 
nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
  
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
  
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.  Before the
1950's it was made from Hemp.  The stem and leaves of a marijuana 
plant.(anyone have any pre-1950 money?  LMAO)
  
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
  
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
  
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
  
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
the same time.
  
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.
  
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
  
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.
  
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
  
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
and silver!
  
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill 
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
  
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a
recorded Wendy before!
  
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to 
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
  
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so 
you could see his moves.  That's the opposite of the norm.
  
Bubble gum contains rubber.
  
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the  
USA'
  
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand.
  
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
  
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  
Celery has negative calories!  It takes more calories to eat a
piece   of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
  
An elephant can smell water three miles away.
  
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.
  
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool!  He
changed it every 2 innings!
  
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

We are getting ready for Hurricane Irene......managed to dodge Floyd and
Harvey.  Looks like we won't have to water the grass for a while.
Cheers!

PC