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    1 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. (YUCK!)
    2. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
    3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (Who leaves champers in their glass long enough to find out?)
    4. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate (I know some people like that!)
    5. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
    6. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (I knew it!) :shock: :shock: :shock:
    7. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
    8. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
    9. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
    10. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
    11. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
    12. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
    13. 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. (WHAT???)
    14. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER??)
    15. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest.
    16. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
    17. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
    18. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
    19. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space….)
    20. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

    #181498

    :shock:

    :lol: :lol: :lol:

    #181499

    @squeezy wrote:

    3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (Who leaves champers in their glass long enough to find out?)

    we have this party drink that is kind of like champagne with raisins and the raisins really do that :)

    @squeezy wrote:

    4. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate (I know some people like that!)

    Help me!!!

    @squeezy wrote:

    7. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

    true… somewhere in the 50’s or something :roll:

    @squeezy wrote:

    17. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.

    and Tartzan actually never said “Me Tarzan, you Jane” :wink:

    #181500

    Speaking of Donald Duck..I never knew he had a middle name, I heard a contest on the radio just this morning to win tickets to a “wrestling” match near here for anyone who could name it. I never heard the answer :( but I hate wrestling anyway :D

    #181501

    I googled…Its Fauntleroy :shock:

    #181502

    @robyn wrote:

    I googled…Its Fauntleroy :shock:

    Blimey…no wonder he kept it quiet….. :shock: :lol:

    #181503

    @robyn wrote:

    I googled…Its Fauntleroy :shock:

    I do the Googling in these parts! :twisted:

    #181504

    Sorry :oops: You werent around to ask..atleast I didnt post a link :D then I would have been stepping over the line :lol:

    #181505

    :lol: :lol: :lol:

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