I couldn't let this go. I wanted to let you all know that number 8 is false.
See: http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm
I've accepted the fact she won't marry me some day but I'm still a fan.

Garo K. Akcelik
System Administrator
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon / Regence HMO Oregon
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The opinions expressed, here, are mine and mine alone.

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Subject:  OT: Thursday Humor




I probably should have held this back until Friday, but I needed this
today....

Of course, I can't vouch for the veracity of these statements, I leave that
as an exercise for the reader...

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickles the company once had.
3. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
5. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
7. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
8. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
9. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
10. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
11. A 2x4 is 1 1/2 x 3 1/2.
12. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
13. Every person has a unique tongue print.
14. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was
albino.
15. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
16. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the
distance.
17. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
18. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's
son.
19. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
20. 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.
21. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
22. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
23. Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sew-eese.
24. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
the same time.
25. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.
26. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.
27. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in
a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
28. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
29. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and
silver!
30. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a
recorded Wendy before!
31. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
32. There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a $10 dollar
bill.
33. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint
Mona Lisa's lips.
34. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly
go mad and sting itself to death.
35. 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.
36. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able
to make change for a dollar.
37. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the
USA'.
38. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
39. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
40. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
41. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of
celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
42. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike
contest.
43. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars,
Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did
this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
44. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
45. In the Sherlock Holmes books, he NEVER said Elementary, my dear Watson.
46. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often
stolen from Public Libraries.
47. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
48. Back in the middle to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't
considered a 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight
Simulator.