[Intr] In case you want to know

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In case you want to know..... odd but true facts..... - look at your zipper. see the initials YKK? it stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper maufacturer. - A raisin dropped in a glass of a fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuosly from the bottom of the glass to the top. - A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. - 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. - 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. - On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. - Chocolate kills dogs! true, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. - MOst lipstick contains fish scales. - Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine. - Leonardo da vinci could write with one hand and draw with other at the same time. - Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. - There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. - Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also , it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. - 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. - The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! - By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand. - Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito 's sensors so they don't know you are there. - Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. - The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum - The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. - Michael Jordan makes more moeny from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. - Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. - Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. - The three most valuable brand names on earth : Marlboro , Coca-cola and Budweiser in that order. - "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be tped with onky the left hand. - To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. it will let you go instantly. - A mathematical wonder : 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678,987,654,321. - The most common name in the world is Mohammed. - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. - The "pound (#) key on your keybaord is called octothorp - The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. - Rubber bands las longer when refrigerated. - The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. - "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt" - It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. - In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off" - A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head. - European women didn't wear underwear untill the 1900's - We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. - Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines. - Coca-Cola can be used as car oil. - Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year. - Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. - Blue is the favarite colr of 80 percent of Americans. - When a person shakes their haed from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka. - There are more chickens than people in the world. - It's against the law in ICeland to have a dog. - The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest. - The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "Subcontinental". - There are more telephones than people in Washington DC - Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed. - In Pakistan , it's rude to show your feet. - 90% of those read till this line are very free.....are you ? hahhahahahaahhahaah........... Enjoy!!! -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 121.120.25.232