*Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know*

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
4. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
5. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
6. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
7. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
8. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
9. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
10. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
11. 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.
12. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
13. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
14. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
15. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
16. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave !