1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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4. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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5. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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6. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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7. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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8. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
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9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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10. 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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11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
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12. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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13. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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14. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
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15. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.
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16. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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17. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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