Some weird facts!!

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was elminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

In Toyko, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

There are 18 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.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces with 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.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

To photograph the event, a camera most 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 lightening bolt produces temperatures five times hotter than those found at the surface of the sun.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

One ragweed plant can relese as many as one billion grains of pollen.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,288 years to reach one trillion.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

Procupines float in water.Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Cat urine glows under a black-light.

The worlds termites outweigh the worlds humans 10 to 1.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

The placement of a donkeys eyes in its head enable it to see all four legs at all times.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in one night.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside.

Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventer, was afraid of the dark.