Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know ???

Strange Things You Likely
Didn't Know ???
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will
bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the
top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot
find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from
crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car
can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong
parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear
Watson."
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during
World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four
moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with
orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go
into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald
McDonald.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it
will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was
the sadist who
discovered this??)
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.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce
Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a
record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player
on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves
Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.