Some Interesting 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 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!
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
• Most lipstick contains fish scales!
• Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
• It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you are sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
• 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 group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
• Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
• 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!
• Porcupines float in water!
• The sentence :"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog". uses every letter of the alphabet!
• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! 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!
• 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 !
• Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!