Did You Know?
By MsJessi
@MsJessi (423)
United States
March 16, 2007 10:50am CST
Just some strange facts that I found...
- Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel in the same plane
-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.
- The most popular first name in the WORLD is Muhammed
- Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an INSULT.
- A 2 foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows
- Most lipstick contains fish scales
- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
- The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products make for right handed people.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- The sloth ( a mammal ) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
- It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
I found a lot of this stuff to be interesting...and strangely enough, i didn't know any of it! lol
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