The Right Stuff - 102 Amazing Facts

Amazing Facts


1	Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
2	The 57 on the 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 or it will digest itself.
5	The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
6	A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
7	A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
8	A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
9	Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
10	The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
11	315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
12	On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
13	Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
14	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.
15	Most lipstick contains fish scales.
16	Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
17	Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
18	Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
19	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 their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
20	American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class!
21	Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
22	The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
23	There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
24	There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
25	The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
26	Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips!
27	If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
28	Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
29	The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
30	By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
31	Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
32	Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
33	Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
34	In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
35	Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
36	The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
37	Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them!
38	Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer was not considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
39	Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

	-------------------- The Facts Below are submitted by Wizard --------------------

40	Coca-Cola was originally green.
41	The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
42	The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
43	The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
44	There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
45	TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
46	Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
47	You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
48	It is impossible to lick your elbow.
49	People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
50	It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
51	The "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
52	If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
53	If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
54	Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
55	111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
56	If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
57	What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
58	Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
59	A snail can sleep for three years.
60	All polar bears are left handed.
61	Butterflies taste with their feet.
62	Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
63	In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
64	On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
65	Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".
66	Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
67	The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
68	The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
69	The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
70	Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
71	Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
72	The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

73	Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
74	The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
75	Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
76	The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
77	An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
78	Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
79	Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
80	Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
81	A shrimp's heart is in its head.
82	In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
83	It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84	More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
85	Horses can't vomit.
86	Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
87	Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
88	The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
89	No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.
90	Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
91	You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
92	Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
93	The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
94	The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
95	A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.
96	Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
97	Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
98	Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
99	Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
100	Pearls melt in vinegar.
101	It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
102	Turtles can breathe through their butts.