Want to know some weird facts
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 s! 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 is four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye! Siberia! The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other is 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 is 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! 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! One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! It is 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! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! Clinophobia is the fear of beds! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! Porcupines float in water! 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! .......now was not 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 is termites outweigh the world is 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 is heart beats 300 times a minute on average! The placement of a donkey is 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 i
Actually tipping at restaurants in Iceland is not considered an
insult, it is just not necessary because the price includes full service.
Tips are not used at all in Iceland, so the staff might be surprised or
might decline the tips. That doesn't mean they feel insulted.
I guess my answer is yes b/c I did want to read them, but I
don't necessarily think all of them are acurate.
Muhammad is not the most popular name.
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