May be a repeated mail… but good knowledgeable one…
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
--- Bruce Lee
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From: S
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:34 PM
To: Subject: Strange but true
STRANGE BUT TRUE
· 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!
· The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
· The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
· Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
· Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
· A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
· Most lipstick contains fish scales!
· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
· No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
· A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
· The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
· A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
· The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
· Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
· The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
· A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
· · In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
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