Weird facts of the day

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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

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

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.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

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"!

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

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

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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