40% of McDonald's profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique eye and tongue print.
The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red
eyes. He was albino.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be
seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's nervous system and
heart. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WW2. If captured,
they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
During the gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for
washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California
during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to
Hawaii for servicing.
American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in First Class.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during WW2 were made of
wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a
game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Upper and lower case letters are so named because in the time when all
original print had to bet set in individual letters, the upper case letters
were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case
letters.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, silver, and
purple.
The number "172" can be found on the back of the U.S. 5 dollar
bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a
recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
There are 4 cars and 11 light posts on the back of the U.S. ten dollar
bill.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It also took him 10 years
to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
If one place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you
could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA."
The original name for a butterfly was "flutterby."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink in
quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece
of celery than the celery has to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike
contest.
In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathon Swift described the two moons of Mars,
Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of
rotation. He did this more than 100 years before they were
discovered.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
The glue on Israeli postage is certified Kosher.
The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because
passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Back in the mid-1980s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100%
compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.