strange but true

• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
• Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
• 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!
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
• Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
• 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!
• One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
• 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!
• It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
• It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
• Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
• Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!