Wired Fact

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


2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down ontinuouslyfrom the bottom of the glass to the top.


3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.


4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.


5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.


6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.


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


8. Most lipstick contains fish scales. (yucks)


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


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