Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper. Prior to World War I the fibers were made of silk.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
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 was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne 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.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
315 entries in Websters 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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 fours moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him ten years to paint Mona Lisas lips.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. Thats 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.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than
the celery has to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
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.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.