So a couple of days ago I wrote about Petete and how we learned stuff from him/her. Well now you can learn some really good things from us!.
Here we go:
Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
In Mel Brooks’ ‘Silent Movie,’ mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
The Beatles song “Dear Prudence” was written about Mia Farrow’s sister, Prudence, when she wouldn’t come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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