- 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 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 $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'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!
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Know These Amazing Facts???
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