Here's a tasty
bit of trivia and facts for your mind to munch on!
- If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have
$1.19.You would 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 Springsteen's
"Born in the USA".
- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original
"Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
- 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.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you
cannot sink into quicksand.
- Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
- 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.
- In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons
of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this
more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
- 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 3 steps backwards while dancing.
- Sharon Stone was the first StarSearch spokesmodel.
- 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.
- Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer
wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's FlightSimulator.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
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