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Trivias

Posted by Admin on June 28, 2007

Contributed by : desertpinoy

  • Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
  • A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  • A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
  • 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  • 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
  • On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  • Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  • Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
  • Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
  • Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  • There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
  • Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
  • 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.
  • The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”! Read the rest of this entry »
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