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Post by The March Hare on Sept 25, 2006 13:46:02 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 26, 2006 0:45:50 GMT 1
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
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 26, 2006 0:46:51 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 26, 2006 7:35:39 GMT 1
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
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 27, 2006 8:14:13 GMT 1
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
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 27, 2006 8:15:50 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 29, 2006 8:20:54 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Sept 29, 2006 8:22:00 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Oct 19, 2006 7:53:42 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Oct 20, 2006 8:17:13 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Oct 21, 2006 7:58:00 GMT 1
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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
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 3, 2006 8:57:27 GMT 1
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 4, 2006 8:56:29 GMT 1
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A thingyroach 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!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 5, 2006 10:48:04 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 6, 2006 8:59:10 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 11, 2006 9:13:54 GMT 1
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!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 13, 2006 8:54:36 GMT 1
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It 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!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 16, 2006 9:09:50 GMT 1
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 20, 2006 9:11:30 GMT 1
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 21, 2006 9:08:04 GMT 1
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!..
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