Beyond Your Knowledge~

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

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)

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.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "Goodnight, Sleep Tight."