Strange but True Facts
1) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
2) In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
3) There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
4) Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
5) Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
6) The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
7) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
8) There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
9) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
10) Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is 2,500.
11) 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.
12) Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating (Some of us still do this today, to the consternation of others).
13) Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
14) One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.
15) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
16) Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
17) It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
18) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
19) A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
20) A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
credit: Joke-of-the-Day
Strange But True Facts
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