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STRANGE BUT TRUE

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

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!

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 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!

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 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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