*Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know*

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*A rat can last longer without water than a camel.*
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*The dot over the letter "i" is called a
tittle.*
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*A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.*
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*A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.*
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*During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the
distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).*
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*Donald Duck comics were
banned from
Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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*Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.*
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*There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and
silver.*
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*The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a
recorded Wendy before.*
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*If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion,
it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.*
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*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.*
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*The original name for butterfly was flutterby.*
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*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.*
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*Celery has negative calories. It takes more
calories to
eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.*
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*The Guinness Book
of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from
public libraries.*
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*Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because
passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.*
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*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave !
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