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You just can't continue life without knowing these items:

1. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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 female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
5. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
6. On average, 12 newborns around the world will be given to the wrong parents each day!
7. Donald Duck comics were initially banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed  the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
11. If one places a tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.                                   12. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film
down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
13. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything thicker than your thumb.
14. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you will not sink into quicksand.
15. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
16. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
17. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
18. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
19. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
20. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!