Tantalizing Trivia!

1. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could
    be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

2. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

3. Orcas (killer whales. kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach
    from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

4. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
    pants.

5. Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.

6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

7. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu
    for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California
    during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to
    Hawaii for servicing.

8. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
    salad served in First Class.

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

10. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a
      game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

11. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the
      time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case
      letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case
      letters.

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

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and
      silver.

14. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the
      bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

15. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a
      recorded Wendy before.

16. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed
      the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

17. There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill.

18. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint
      Mona Lisa's lips.

19. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad
      and sting itself to death.

20. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you
      could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

~Author Unknown~

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