Things You Should Know
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Originally Posted by Tomcat7742
Maybe it's because I am young but I do not understand why this is important.
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It's not meant to be serious.
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Just seemed like the odd man out in the list of things. I actually googled it and found out that it's false.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm
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http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm
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Ben, if you're going to give us useless trivia, please at least make sure it's correct useless trivia! 
I can't even begin to describe my disappointment at finding out that Susan Lucci is not the daughter of Phyllis Diller...
I can't even begin to describe my disappointment at finding out that Susan Lucci is not the daughter of Phyllis Diller...
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Originally Posted by TigerDan
Ben, if you're going to give us useless trivia, please at least make sure it's correct useless trivia!
I can't even begin to describe my disappointment at finding out that Susan Lucci is not the daughter of Phyllis Diller...
I can't even begin to describe my disappointment at finding out that Susan Lucci is not the daughter of Phyllis Diller...
They're more like a before and after pic of some product on an info-mercial.
"Just send one easy payment of $29.95 and you can go from this (Phyllis Diller) to this (Susan Lucci). If you act now, we'll include........."
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money is only 60% cotton, i'm pretty sure the other 40% is nylon i think. I went to one of the places they make it with boy scouts. if it was all cotton, it would fall apart in the washing machine.
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Originally Posted by fast frank 66
money is only 60% cotton, i'm pretty sure the other 40% is nylon i think. I went to one of the places they make it with boy scouts. if it was all cotton, it would fall apart in the washing machine.
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Originally Posted by sierraben
1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle"
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle"
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.
#6 yes, but they have to give most of that back due to people that spill the coffee.
#7 another example of your tax dollars at work in the school system.
#9 ahhh.....so that explains my family!
#11 finally....a solution to that yapping thing next door!
(joke...obviously.)
#12 dolphins will do the same thing. although I doubt the sharks explode when they do it.
#13 yet another example of the lengths women go to for beauty.(also see #17 below)
#14 ...he doesn't wear pants!?!?!
#17 I see women driving,talking on a cel phone and applying make-up at the same time. talk about stepping it up a notch!
