1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out  of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of  pickle the company once had.

 3. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

 4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks,  otherwise it will digest itself.

 5. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

 6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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

 8. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis  Diller.

 9. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

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

 11. A 2x4 is 1-1/2 x 3-1/2

 12. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the  sales of Happy Meals.

 13. Every person has a unique tongue print.

 14. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor  who had red eyes. He was  albino.

 15. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. 

16. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a  small red car can be seen in  the distance.

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

 18. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the  life of Abraham Lincoln's  son.

19. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are  brother and sister.

20. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill  a small sized dog.

 21. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

 22. Playing cards were issued to British pilots  in WWII. If captured,  they could be soaked in water and unfolded  to reveal a map for  escape.

 23. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

24. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by  torpedoing up into the shark's  stomach from underneath, causing the shark  to explode.

 25. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland  because he doesn't wear  pants.

 26. Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such  that it sounded like  Sue-ice.

 27. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

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

29. During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to  Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to  send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

 30. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from  each salad served in first class.