Interesting facts

IN CASE YOU WANT TO KNOW.......
Odd but true facts.

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It
stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the
world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne
will bounce up and down continuously from the
bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows
why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the
sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were
misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to
the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a
dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is
enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand
and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given
out
during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling
casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it
took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. 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.

15. The original name for the butterfly was
"flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your
back, you can't sink in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide
you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so
they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept
at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.

19. The first product to have a bar code was
Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died
of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike
annually than all of the Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered
having an abortion but was talked out of it by her
doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be
typed with only the
left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
prick your fingers into
its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied
by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987,
654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.


30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called
an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the
Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English
language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin'
good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a
head.

38. European women didn't wear underwear until the
1900's.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the
Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching
TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of
Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to
side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the
world.

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the
middle nail grows the fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all
vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".

50. Beethoven poured ice water over his head
before he composed.