TRUE OR FALSE?.......YOU DECIDE - BUT INTERESTING READING.
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 title.
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.
A
duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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....)
Donald
Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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.
The name Wendy was made up for the book
Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The
very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the
only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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 the called themselves Motorola.
Roses
may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By
raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into
quicksand.
Celery
has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery
than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie
Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike
contest.
Chewing
gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock
Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An
old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take
more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The
glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often
stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts
are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing
wind in a spacesuit damages them.
For hundreds of years the aloe plant has been known
for its amazing properties. Today this knowledge has
been harnessed into a range of Wellness and Skin care
products that are created from this "lily of the desert".
The soothing and .....
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