Strange - But true
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:49 amDid 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!
# 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!
