Know any of these strange facts?

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 eat


During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!





Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!





Dolphins sleep with one eye open!





The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!





In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!





There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!





About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!





More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!





A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!





Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!























In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!





Slugs have 4 noses!





Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!





Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!











Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!








The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!





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


There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!





Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!








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.......rest your eyes.. there's plenty more where that came from........











The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!





Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!





A jellyfish is 95 percent water!





In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!





The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!





A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!





More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!





The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!





The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!





Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!








One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!








America once issued a 5-cent bill!





You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!





Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!





There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch





Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!





Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!





A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!


A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!





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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!





Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)


166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!


1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!


123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!


85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!


56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!








Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!





The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!





In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!





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!





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





A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!





The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...





There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!





Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!




















An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!





A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!





Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!





One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!





More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!





In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!





Rice paper does not have any rice in it!











Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!








In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!





Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!





The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!





The average person laughs 13 times a day!





Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!





Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!





It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!





Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!





Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!





A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!





Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!





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




















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.......rest your eyes.. there's plenty more where that came from........











The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!





There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!





The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!





Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!





The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!








Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!








Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!





Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!





Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!





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A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!





The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!





The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!





A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!





After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Know any of these strange facts?
Wow! Amazing! All of it! Thanks for sharing that with me (us)! You just made me a little bit smarter :) Awesome. Where did you find all of those facts? Some of them are really very interesting. If you have anymore I'd be willing to read them!
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Reply:Some of these I know, most I didn't.





I looked at the Blesbok and its hide doesn't look like grape juice to me, looks more tan-ish brown.
Reply:very interesting, where did you get these?
Reply:those were great!





i actually knew a lot of those, but most of them i did not. my brain is full to explode with useless information
Reply:You sure do have a lot of time on your hands. AND a lot on your mind. ha ha
Reply:The exclaimation point after every fact really gave this whole thing an extra something.





And the thing about the lump of gold is amazing!
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i likes the "lump of pure gold.....tennis court" one....i'm gonna have to spread that one around tomorrow...^_^
Reply:It is a great amazing collection of stunning information. Thanks.I will like to add some for your information.


There is a small town called Shinganpur in Maharashtra State in India, close to Shirdi.It has a population of app.14,000 residing in 2000 houses. These houses have no locking system in them. They do no have any doors too. Inside the houses,the cupboards,trunks,boxes,suitcases or any other storage containers do not have any locks in them.It is believed by the local people that they have absolute protection of their Lord Shani.It is also true that there has been no incidence of any theft,burglary,looting,pilferage etc. in the village for the last 150 years.