kulit nito, really
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials
YKK? It
stands for Yoshida
Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's
largest zipper
manufacturer.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne
will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the
glass to
the top.
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one
knows why.
4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come
from the
sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996
Dictionary were
misspelled.
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be
given to
the wrong parents daily.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a
medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with
one hand
and draw with the
other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars
given out
during World War II
were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
Also, it
took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. 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.
15. The original name for the butterfly
was
"flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying
on your
back, you can't sink
in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They
hide
you. The spray blocks
the mosquito's sensors so they don't know
you're
there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush
be kept
at least six feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne
particles
resulting from the
flush.
19. The first produ ct to have a bar code
was
Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro
company died
of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money
from Nike
annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one
foot.
24. The three most valuable brand
names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word
that can be
typed with only the
left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's
jaws,
prick your fingers into
its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder:
111,111,111multiplied
by 111,111,111 gives
the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world
is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard
is called
an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not
mentioned in the
Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does
56% of the
typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the
English
language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger
lickin'
good" comes out as "eat
your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days
without a head.
38. European women didn't wear
underwear until the
1900's.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons
in the
Philippines.
42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a
year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than
watching TV.
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80
percent of
Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head
from side to
side, he is
saying"yes" in Sri Lanka.
46. There are more chickens than people
in the world.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and
the
middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English
Language with all
vowels in reverse
order is "subcontinental".
50. There are more telephones than
people in
Washington, D.C
