Things you need to know

• 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.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• 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 female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
• During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
  in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
  (That explains a few mysteries....)
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• 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.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
  purple and silver.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
  because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
  instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
  discovered this??)
• 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 first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
  the USA."
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
  stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
  for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
  sink into quicksand.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
  piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
  look-alike contest.
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
  to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
  most often stolen from public libraries.
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!