1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?
It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha,
the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2. A raising 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.
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous
system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
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 casin0s.
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 product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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