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From: "FrankG@lalnet.com" <frankg@lalnet.com>
To: "Pals" <pals@funfolks.net>
Subject: FW: Interesting Tid Bits
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:53:38 -0800
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Regards,


Frank D. Girolami
Senior Vice President
Labels & Lists, Inc.
800-842-5478


Things I did not know:

1. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because
the
original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the
bubbles.

2. Mosquito repellents don't repel.  They hide you.  The spray blocks
the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

3.  Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet
away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(yuck)

4. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.

5. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

6. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

7. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

8. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on TV.

9.  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

10. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
older.

11. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

12. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

13. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first
flight.

14. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
each
salad served in first class.

15. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

16. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA".

17. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.

18. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

19. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

20. Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a
Pez
dispenser.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes.

23. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

24. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands
in
jelly.

25. Pearls melt in vinegar.

26. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's
supply of footballs.

27. The three most valuable brand names on earth:  Marlboro, Coca Cola,
Budweiser, in that order.

28. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

29. Average life span of a major league baseball:  7 pitches.

30. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

31. The reason firehouses have circular staircases is from the days when
the
engines were pulled by horses.  The horses were stabled on the ground
floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

32. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name
contains
all the letters from the word "criminal".

33.  The second?  William Jefferson Clinton.