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34 Things of Interest
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I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but I like #34:

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 continueusly from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. Scratch this one. It's false according to snopes.
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 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
sharks 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 scarse, 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 an 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 was 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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