Did You Know...

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself!
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a title.
4. A rasin dropped in fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannon find a mate. Now that is interesting.
   
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents.
   
8. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't ware pants.
9. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
10. The number of ways possible of playing the first foud moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000
11. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with purple, orange and silver.
12. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
13. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only Berlin elephant in the zoo.
14. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
15. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
16. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."
17. 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.
18. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
19. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannont sink into quicksand.
20. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
21. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
22. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
23. The Guinness Book of Records holds the records for being the most often stolen books from Libraries.
24. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going into space because passing wind in spacesuits will damage them. Not to mention the other drawback.

Have a happy Saturday! My Mom is in town for a whole week!!

Is it April 24th yet??