Strange but true
Saturday, May 31, 2008 Labels: body, lisa, mona, nobel, paper, strange, sun, tea, teeth, true, violin 0 comments
- 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!
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
- The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
- Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
- 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!
- A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- 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 crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
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