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!

? The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

? 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 ***** men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

? A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

? Most lipstick contains fish scales!

? 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 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!

. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland

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