Useless Facts?

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:08:42 GMT

Coming right off of a weekend vacation, I thought I would keep the subject light by having something a little less serious. I was digging through some old things and found this list. Don't really know where they came from, but apparantly that person had plenty of time on their hands. Anyway, more information to overload your brain with today!

Did you know that...

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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 duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow 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 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 laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

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Useless Facts?