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Re: Useful Facts
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be
seen in
the distance.
I have also heard that a jeep can be seen on a hillside during
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in King of Kings.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 6:44 PM
Subject: Useful Facts
> 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
>
>
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