Cabin Fever

For those of us who are snowed-in this Sunday, here's a small but tremendously interesting list of random facts.

• Levi blue jeans were priced at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.
• Money isn't made out of paper- it's made out of linen.
• And following on that theme, the first condoms, which date back to the 1500's, were made of linen.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Two out of three car buyers pay the sticker price without haggling.
• Most american car horns honk in the key of F.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will continuously sink to the bottom and rise to the top.
• Cocaine used to be sold as a cure for sore throat, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880's.
• Hershey's Kisses were named so because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• The very first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi Cola.