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> 1 . Money isn't made out of paper it's made out of cotton.
> 2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
> 3. The dot over the letter "I" is called a "tittle".
> 4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
> 5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
> 6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
> 7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
> 8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was an albino.
> 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
> 10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
> 11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
> 12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

> 13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
> 14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
> 15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
> 16. 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.
> 17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.(Hence, multi-tasking was invented.)
> 18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
> 19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
> 20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
> 21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
> 22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
> 23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
> 24.. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
> 25. 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. (good to know.)
> 26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
> 27. 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.
> 28. The first product Motorola started to develop w as a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
> 29. 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!
> 30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
> 31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
> 32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
> 33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
> 34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart .. "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail.
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Interesting Geography Facts....
> More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.
> The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
> The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
> Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any
> country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica. This ice
> also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world.
> As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert.
> The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although
> covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place
> on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
> Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
> Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is
> an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
> Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
> Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1,
> named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
> Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before
> Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited
> city in existence.
> Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
> Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
> Angeles de Porciuncula --and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
> New York City
> The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the
> 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city.
> Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time--The Big Apple.
> There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin,
> Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more
> Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.
> There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is manmade.
> Pitcairn Island
> The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at
> just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
> Rome
> The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy
> in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
> Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
> The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign
> Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome,
> Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population
> of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity
> under international law, just as the Vatican is.
> In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not
> receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest
> place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island.
> There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
> Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
> St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after a man
> named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant who set up the first business there.
> Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A.: 1%, in Canada: 75%
> The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as
> 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
> United States
> The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five
> must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in
> times of war or other emergencies.
> Waterfalls
> The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops
> 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.