YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT......... 

• Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. 
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth:  Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ...but not down stairs
• The sentence  "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"  uses every letter in the alphabet.   (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
• The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the  "American Pie."   (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a  great King from history:
          Spades - King David
          Clubs - Alexander the Great
          Hearts - Charlemagne, and
          Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
  
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn  their houses down---hence the expression  "to get fired."
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.  
• The only two days of the year in which there are no  professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are  the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
• Only one person in two billion will live  to be 116 or older.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will  keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
• The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. 
• Months that begin on Sunday will always have a  "Friday the 13th."
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. 
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. 
  
  --courtesy of Mike Snyder