"UNKNOWN" FACTS

* A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
* The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
* A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
* A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
* A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
* A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
* During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

* On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!
* Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
* Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
* The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
* The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
* If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

* Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
* The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
* The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
* Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
* By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
* Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

* Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
* An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
* The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
* The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
* Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.
* Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

1. Bruce Was Born in America

Although born in America, Bruce Lee was grown up in Hong Kong. He would get into fights very often in his teens, and after a particularly bloody fight including a trip to police station, he was sent back to America by his family.

2. He Dropped Out Of The University

In America, at the end of his junior year in 1964, Bruce decided to drop out of the university to dedicate himself to martial arts. He thought he would join the list of people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who became famous despite dropping their studies.

3. He Was Badly Injured

He grievously injured his back during one of the practice sessions for The Green Hornet series in 1970. The doctors asked him to forget Kung Fu. But for someone who loved martial arts so much, this was too devastating a blow to take. Although he took physical rest for 6 months, his mind worked furiously and he wrote down many ideas and methods of martial arts. After 6 months, he himself started practicing them, moderately at first and vigorously with time, and then resumed to his teaching. But his back remained as a source of pain through out his life.

4. Many Opportunities Were Stolen From Him

After The Green Hornet series, he did not get any television work. The movie he acted in, The Silent Flute, was a flop. At that time, Warner Bros have contacted him asking help in developing a TV series based on martial arts. He gave them many ideas which were used in the famous TV series Kung Fu which starred David Carradine, and not Bruce Lee. Warner Bros themselves admitted that they never even considered Bruce for that role.

5. His Practice Was Vigorous

After his recovery from the back injury, Bruce Lee practiced incessantly to get back the previous vigor in his body. There are records which show that he practiced kicks up to thousand times a day.

6. He Loved Reading

Bruce Lee had a vast collection of books, and still looked for new books every time he went out. He read not just the books on martial arts, but books on personal growth. He even liked novice writers of his time like Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale and Clement Stone.

7. His Success Came from a Less-Than-Perfect Victory

Bruce Lee was once challenged in the 1960s, for revealing the secrets of Chinese to others. He won the fight, but he was not happy: He took 3 minutes to win the fight when he could have completed in one minute. This less-than-perfect experience had made him modify the traditional martial arts to make them more deadly and powerful.

Dedication, determination and confidence that he can achieve what he wants are what that made him successful.

[Source: quazen]