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by **Leonmc0708** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:49 am

Did you know:

# 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 Cadburys Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

# As a precaution, should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane.

# 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 £3,950!

# 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!

by **Enrique** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:01 am

Smart Ar$e!

by **Paul C** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:06 am

I actually knew all of those apart the lightening bolt one

by **laza** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:14 pm

im wondering who the poor sod was who had to count the blood cells...........13 million and ........oh damn 1.2.3

by **Paul C** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:25 pm

lol, I'd sit their goin 2, 9, 53, 194 tryin to put him off

by **JBG** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:26 pm

Informative.

by **Paul C** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:49 pm

http://www.amusingfacts.com/

by **116-1065305004** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:56 pm

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