Strange facts

Strange 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 casinos!There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitantsThe Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them offThe sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!Cat urine glows under a black-light!The world's termites outweigh the world's 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's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!The placement of a donkey's 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 its edge, a dime has one less groove!Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!The state of Florida is bigger than England!There are more than one million animal species on Earth!In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suitsIt was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!Dolphins sleep with one eye open!The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

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