Facts - You probably never knew

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


• 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 duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.


• 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.


• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.


• Most lipstick contains fish scales.


• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.


• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.


• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.


• 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. That's the opposite of the norm.


• The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!


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


• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.


• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.


• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.


• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.


• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.


• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.


• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.


• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.


• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.


• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.


• A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.


• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.


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


• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.


• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


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


• "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".


• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


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


• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.


• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.


• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.


• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.


• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.


• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.


• When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.


• There are more chickens than people in the world.


• It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.


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


• The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".


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