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

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

-The Declaration of Independence (the very official copy in the Rotunda of the National Archives) is written on parchment, not paper.

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

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

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

-A 2x4 is actually 1­1/2" x 3­1/2" .

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

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

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

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

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

-Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

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

-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

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

-The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

-The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

-There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.

-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot. :)

-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

-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.

-The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'

-The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

-Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. (Mmm, diet food.)

-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

-An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. (?!)

-Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

-Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book ...

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