Smile Awhile
Strange But True Facts

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.

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

There were 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary that were misspelled.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as a medicine.

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

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

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

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.

The original name for the butterfly was flutterby!

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

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

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

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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

To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person’s left hand does 56 percent of the typing.

“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “MT.”