Huh? Wha?
I can’t believe this is all true but since it’s going around the net (again) it must be!
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DONT…………
1 . Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a “tittle”.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The ‘spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.
17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time … hence, multi-tasking was invented.)
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was a Captain Kirk’s mask painted white.
25. 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 (good to know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. 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.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it
The problem with this list is that it’s laced with BS (as is everything on the net). Read this about item number 5! Many of the items on this list are debunked on Snopes. Where on the list did you personally suspend common sense?
Read the comments and see how much is BS!! Add your discovery.
found by Meetsy
I look askance at everything, especially internet material.
Since it’s easy to post content to the web now, primarily with blogs, you have to go to great lengths to create, enhance, and maintain online crediblity. See my recent comment at The Red Couch of Scoble/Israel.
Online credibility is the first thing any web surfer, designer, content provider, blogger, web site owner, needs to know.
Credibility comes first. All else follows from that, and there are many other virtues one must have in online resources, like relevant content, good design, high usability, personality, human warmth, unique voice, etc.
“Paper” money is linen, not paper or cotton.
Astronauts are cannibals, they eat each other, when space shuttles are delayed or cancelled. They train to each human flesh, which is a skill and an acquired taste. See my new imaginary movie on this topic.
This is like one of those opticle illusion pictures.
But it could also be more out of my Karl Rove conspiracy notebook.
Exercise 31: How to get people to stop questiong the truth. …insert BS laced list or GOP talking points here.
From the rocker scrapbook:
hmm, an optilcal illusion of truth, must be what Jim Morison of the Doors meant when he said, “get this, an Optical Promise, ha ha ha”
You look, you see, you want to believe, but all belief is hind sight.
The trust, 2 + 2 = 4, is only our math mind impinging on our religous ferver quotient, which is directly proportional to how “Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired” we are.
Oh yea, my referers pointed to your referers, does that make me a Natural Fool?
> 2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
Wrong, it is written on parchment (made from animal skin).
I bet that MOST of the items are this list are bogus. It’s interesting. We shoudl put together a similar list.
As for the Motorola assertion that it began as a record player concept:
oh and this about scissors:
ahhh, but JUST like the talking points…..and/or the common con-artist/grifter ploy…..if you put some TRUTH in with the lies…the truths will validate the lies, unless one digs deeper..(and many people do not).
So….if you start citing bible passages…you can toss in a few ringers…like how it’s an abomination unto the lord….gay marriage, homosexuality, Darwin…whatever (although no one ever mentions, much, that shrimp and shellfish are really IN THE BIBLE as an abomination…..hmmmm….)
Tell some of the truth some of the time….and people will think you an honest person ALL the time….
Chewing gum is made from horse’s hooves (and probably cow’s hooves) and Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are brother and sister.
Susan luccis REAL MOM is not phylis Diller!
Its a joke
heres a picture of susan with her real mom as published on Dvorak.org back in May
http://www.tcf.net/susan-lucci.html
The raisin one is true: the little carbonation bubbles make the raisin go up and down. The chocolate one is also true, though it rarely does actually kill a dog. Most of the time they just have siezures. The whale one and the lipstick ones are so not true. The one about the Halloween mask is actually true, any horror movie fan will know that.
The no clocks in Vegas is true also- this is intentional, they dont want people to look at the time and decide to leave. So is the one about the rule of thumb, in fact this was in some of my college textbooks. Other than that, I am pretty positive no words rhyme with silver purple or orange but I could be wrong. I think all the rest are false, too.
It’s Called currency paper and is composed of 25 percent linen and 75 percent cotton.
When money started to become to easy to copy The Bills where redesigned
Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper.
Before World War I these fibers were made of silk.
Rule of thimb has nothing to do with wife beating
LOL
Rule of the thumb is a human measurment, a rough measurement.
to calculate inches when when measurement tools arent available.
Other parts of the body are used in the same manner such as a persons foot. The average sized mans foot with shoe on is aprov 12 inches or one foot. a leg could be used to measure a yard LOL
18. From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal from 1942 until the end of World War II. The winners received replacement statues after the war to replace the plaster ones. Edgar Bergen was the only person who received an Oscar made out of wood in 1938 for his “outstanding comic creation,” which was his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
(I found this info on reelclassics.com)