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Please note that these facts have not been verified, they might not be true.

• Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

• 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.

• 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

• On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

• Chocolate kills dogs! True, 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 1830's as a medicine.

• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

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

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

• The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

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

• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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

• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

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

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

• A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

• "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

• Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

• When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

• There are mo re chickens than people in the world.

• It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

• The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".

• There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C