>I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but I like #34:
>
> 1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

So money actually doesn't grow on trees (as it would if it were made of paper) but directly out of the ground.

> 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.

In the UK, the babies aren't taken away to creche but stay in the delivery room with the mother. I don't see that happening here.

> 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.

We had a mongrel who lived to 12, when he was knocked down, who ate several tubes of Smarties a week and my ma was always giving him chocolates. We didn't know that stat BTW.

> 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.

Similarly the "leading" above and below lines of text is from the old "hot metal" printing days when lead was poured in

> 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.

"strange", "hurtle" (almost) and, if you're dyslexic, "deliver"

> 22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years
> to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

I bet she was fashionably late to the ball!

> 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.

That'll explain his wooden acting!

> 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!

How about chick peas? I call them "little balls of F-all"

> 30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Also, if you slice the onion in half along its axis, rather than across the equator. I think I learned that tip from a Jamie Oliver prog. It works.

> 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.

Is that in the book?

> 33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
> because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

Especially if they light their farts!

> 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."