In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes, due to the amount of traffic.
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500 !
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands & faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
It takes glass one million years to decompose!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you are sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
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!
Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
Cat urine glows under a black light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1 !!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
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