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!
• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
• Most lipstick contains fish scales!
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s 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!
• Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
• 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 world’s 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!