Don Hite at myITforum.com

Things You May Or May Not Know

• Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
• Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• 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.
• 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.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
• A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• 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.
• 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!
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
• 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 space suit damages them.