Ponderables

  • A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
  • George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
  • Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
  • Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  • A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  • 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  • On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  • John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
  • Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  • 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 a film down so you could see his moves.
  • Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
  • An elephant can smell water three miles away.
  • Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  • Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings.
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  • A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
  • Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton. Before the 1950’s it was made from hemp-the stem and leaves of a marijuana plant.
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