[2] Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. (And it gets it from my nose)
[3] The dot over the litter "i" is called a tittle.
[4] A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continiuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
[5] A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. (Glas I'm not a female ferret!)
[6] A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
[7] A 2X4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
[8] During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seem in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
[9] On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
[10] Donald duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
[11] Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
[12] The number of possible way of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
[13] There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange!
[14] The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
[15] The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
[16] 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??)