Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Do you know?
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!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!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! 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 suitsIt 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!Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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