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*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!