Did you know that:
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Did you know that:
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
Did you know that:
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000
tons!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Did you know:
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!
In West Virginia, one can't cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment.
In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle.
Did you know that:
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apple
s, wasps like pine nu
ts, and worms like fried bacon
.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Coca-Cola
would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
More people are killed each year from bees
than from snakes
.
Did you know that:Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Did you know that Rosie and Renee Tenison was born 1968?, twins of African-American descent; each became a
Playboy Bunny - Renee' won the
Playmate of the Year title in 1990 and was the first African-American model to do so.
