Strange but true

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

-----Original Message-----
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