Interesting Facts

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:26:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These are really interesting, and there are a bunch more on the original website.

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Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)

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

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.

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.

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

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.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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