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Totally Non Work Related Tidbits !!!

 

- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers

- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine

- The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns

- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee

- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle

- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

- During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance

- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone

- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white

- James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand

- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson"

- In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam"

- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second

- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

- Every person has a unique tongue print

- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water

- Pearls melt in vinegar

- Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka