Completely Useless but interesting/funny facts

[Rbacchiega]

...meh...I'm bored

1. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champaigne will continually bounce from the top to the bottom
3. The Spot on the 7-up logo comes from it's inventor. He was an albino and had red eyes.
4. John Wilks Booth's brother once saved the life of Abe Lincoln's son.
5. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
6. The first bomb the allies dropped in Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the zoo.
7. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad and instantly start to sting itself to death
8. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derrived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
9. Chalrie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest
10. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
11. Churchill was born in the ladies room at a dance.
12. Starfish have no brains
13. 11% of the world population are left handed (go me!)
14. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
15. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Englad in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
16. Right handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left handed people...(boo me...)
17. Pearls melt in Vinegar


Yeah....bored.