Offtopic Forum

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle"

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.

obvious facts, some of them were quite true, thanks for sharing.

I don't think you can consider these facts as obvious. I never knew this one "A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top" and "315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled" pretty much all of them.

thanks for knowing me these amazing facts

I want to try the Raisin thing. lol

i'd pay to see #12 in action.

well nice piece of informaiton buddy . Thanks for sharing this information with us. By looking at this everyone will be knowing what to do and what not to do.

Everyone knows it. It is not new thing but it is hard to apply.

LOL...
i just can't figure what is it look like if donald duck wearing pants
with a body like that, i think it's very funny if a duck have to wear pants

I can only imagine him wearing some Parachute Pants.