Odd Things

A friend sent me a long list of odd facts that I hope you will enjoy as much as I did. Here are some of them:

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

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.

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.

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 the film down so you could see his moves.

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

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

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

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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

There are more chickens than people in the world.

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

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

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.