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Saturday mail delivery in Canada was
eliminated by Canada Post on February 1,
1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car
for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in
the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles
and Prince William never travel on the same
airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15
million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king
without a moustache on a standard playing
card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas
for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It
was the fashion in Renaissance Florence
to shave them off !
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The
average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the
world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be
served as towels with which dinner guests
could wipe their hands and faces after
eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know
that tipping at a restaurant is considered an
insult!
One car out of every 230 made was
stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews
are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid
blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts
three naked men with their hands on each
other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move
faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To
photograph the event, a camera must shoot
at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285
gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for
one minute. Half an ounce is used to start
the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26
million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures
five times hotter than those found at the
sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate
pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk"
telephone calls, phone solicitations by
persons or programmed machine are made
every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to
decompose, which means it never wears
out and can be recycled an infinite amount
of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than
downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the
world are published in the United States and
Canada!
........1..2..3...breathe....and repeat...........
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that
lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of
rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that
alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many
as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket
while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar
code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be
folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a
gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a
skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are
killed from using products made for right
handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in
the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would
take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried
alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to
replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than
the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of
the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league
baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing
doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken
is 13 seconds!
........1..2..3...you know the drill...........
.......now wasn't that fun...back to the
facts........
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly
that green algae can grow undisturbed on
its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the
world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-
clockwise. Except for the windmills in
Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a
minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its
head enables it to see all four feet at all
times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as
rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made
of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide
enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge,
a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less
than a penny!!
Until 1796, there was a state in the
United States called Franklin. Today it's
known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around
6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940
billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with
its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460
dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your
dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared
on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat
about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in
a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when
you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from
smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than
England!
There are more than one million animal
species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw
knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a
pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a
day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark!

FTC..

Now, use a table cloth to wipe your hands and face after eating and be called a bush man.

Nice informative thread...Kudos, OP

Cool

OK... makes no diff.














Thanks anyway.

Basildvalour:
Now, use a table cloth to wipe your hands and face after eating and be called a bush man.

Nice informative thread...Kudos, OP

Thanks

Educative nice one.