- Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously 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 the other at the same time.

- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also,it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

- 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.

- 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 can't sink in quicksand.

- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

- Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away 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 money 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 typed with only 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. Try it!

- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

- Rubber bands last 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 until 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 abut 10 inches a year.

- Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

- Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

- When a person shakes their head 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, D.C.

- 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? Hehe...


 

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