Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.

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.

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.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

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

Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be setin individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

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

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

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

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.