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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 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!
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 car uses 1.6 ounces of gas, when 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!
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!
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
The word “set ” has the most number of definitions in the English language;192.
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in
Montana in 1887.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year
presidency.
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The
survivor is born.
Company in Brazil (Suite Vollard) constructed a building in which each floor can rotate 360
degrees. Each building has 11 apartments and each apartment can spin individually in any direction.
One rotation takes a full hour, but apartment owner can set rotation speed through apartment control
panel. Facades are made of three different types of glass which give wonderful effects when building
spins during the sunset. Cost of each apartment is $US 300,000.00.