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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Did You Know?

FROM Strange Facts:

  • The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
  • In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
  • 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!
  • Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
  • A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
  • Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
  • It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
  • During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
  • In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
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