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



2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh

champagne will bounce up and down continuously from

the bottom of the glass to the top.





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



4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.



5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.



6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.



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



8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.



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



10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.



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



12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.



13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.



14. 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.



15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

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



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



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



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



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



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



22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.





Source: forwarded e-mail
Aiswarya
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  Rated 0 | Posted 02-12-2009

Really learnt a lot a things from this.
Thnx a lot dear.....

Jagbandhu
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  Rated 0 | Posted 02-12-2009

Meenakshi !! Very Knowledgeable Sharing ! Thanks to Share with Us! :-)

Regards
Jagbandhu

Suresh
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-12-2009

really these are Knowledgeable information.

Thanks for sharing, Meenakshi.

Suresh Verma

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  Rated 0 | Posted 07-12-2009

Good One, thanks for sharing........


Rgds

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