Useless/Jooceless Info for da ScattabrainZ

» A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

» Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

» The dot over the letter is called a tittle.

» 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..

» During the chariot scene in Ben Hur, a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

» On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)

» The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

» There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

» The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

» The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

» The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

» The phraserule of thumb is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

» Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

» By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

» Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

» Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

» Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

» Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, Elementary, my dear Watson.

» The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

» The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.