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Fun Facts, Trivia compliments of Promo Only and a few I threw in.

  1. The “Hundred Year War” lasted 116 years.
  2. Ecuador is the country that makes Panama Hats.
  3. The infamous “Black Box” on commercial airplanes is ORANGE.
  4. The 57 on Heinz Ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties

of pickles the company once had.

  1. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
  2. The Declaration Of Independence is written on hemp paper
  3. Name two U.S. Currency bills, currently in circulation, that

have the picture of someone who was never president

 

Answers:       $10.00 Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of Treasury)

$100.00 Benjamin Franklin (Statesman, Inventor…)

  1. Name a U.S, coin that has the same person on the front and the back

 

Answer:         The penny. Abraham Lincoln is on the front and on the back.

He is sitting in the Lincoln Memorial.

 

Tip:                  Same is true for the $5.00 Bill

 

  1. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down

continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

  1. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
  2. Every person has a unique tongue print, hand print, eye print and smell
  3. The red “spot” on the 7UP logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes.

He was albino.

  1. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur” a small red car can be seen in the

distance. And a person is wearing a watch.

  1. On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
  2.  Chocolate kills dogs. True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous

system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

  1. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other,

at the same time.

  1. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from

each salad served in first class.

  1. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you

could see his moves.

  1. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween movie was

actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

  1. Casey Kasem is the original voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
  2. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery

than it has in it.