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Jemisa | 14:24 Mon 23rd Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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Look at your zip. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zip manufacturer.

2

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3

15 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily nationwide.

5

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7

Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10

Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11

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.

12

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14

Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

15

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

17

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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Well I knew the Marilyn Monroe was one rollocks

http://www.marilynmonroepages.com/6toes/

I have severe doubts about number 19 too, which would have been lovely if only it was true and she would've!
Thinking more about it, wasn't Adolf's family Catholic? Will Google in a second.
#20 was true at one point I'm sure. However: http://www.snopes.com...market/brandnames.asp

Coca-Cola is still no1, here are the 2011 top brands: http://www.interbrand...obal-Brands-2011.aspx


1 Coca-Cola 71,861 ($m)
2 IBM 69,905 ($m)
3 Microsoft 59,087 ($m)
4 Google 55,317 ($m)
5 GE 42,808 ($m)
6 McDonald's 35,593 ($m)
7 Intel 35,217 ($m)
8 Apple 33,492 ($m)
9 Disney 29,018 ($m)
10 Hewlett-Packard 28,479 ($m)
No 13 - good hint in case I ever get trapped in quicksand (tee-hee - joke)

18 Does that mean Marilyn Monroe was a witch? (shudders delicately)
no, 'cause its not true Star
I think the flutterby one is an urban myth.
number 8 should make a come back with all the wooden actors who think they are gods answer .they know who they are .was thinking too .when script writers have decided to kill of a character so they not be allowed to kill of the person who plays them .would stop so many awful people becoming "stars " in soaps
12 who gonna put flutter on their bread
the Oscars one is bolluks as is the Bruce Lee one.
Has anyone tried no 13 out and lived to tell the tale?
I know BOO. I was joking - not likely I shall ever get caught in quicksand. I can hardly walk up the road!!
I think 12 might have been true. They do flutter by don't they.
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Why does everyone want to try to prove them wrong? I read them all (there's over 80 of em) smile and dismiss them. I won't send the other 60
I'll spare you the frustation. (sigh)

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