Did you know these things?

• A raisin dropped in a glass of freshchampagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.