Wednesday, March 14

Strange But True

· 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. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

· 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!

· The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

· Most lipstick contains fish scales!

· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

· 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!

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