- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- 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 female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. So will chewing bread.
- A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2" (but was 1-3/4" by 2-3/4" when I grew up).
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
- Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." But he did often say, "Elementary," and not just to Watson.
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple or silver.
- The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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