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Strange but True!

 

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

 

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!

 

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 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!

 

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

 

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!

 

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

 

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

 

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

 

The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!

 

 

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!

 


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I doubt the blood cell thing is real because the body need nutriants to make the blood cells sure its fast but u might want to lesten the number by a good 14 million or so.Common ex.The blood banks only take a half too one pint of blood a timeYet they make you wait three too six months too regain it!Blood cells live about a week so equaling the amount made and lost wouldnt work due to cuts and diseases( I know it doesnt mean exact but still )That and your body knows more about itself then u do keeping acurate count of everythingYour bones and all get signals from the nerves telling it that there is too much too little or just right ( your body likes a little surplus tho)So its a never ending change that varys among climate and a average would be a ton less then 15m being that about 50,000 blood cells fit on a pin or soo ud be adding a ton of presure on your veins and they would need cerculated threw your heart ud need too donate blood too survive over 70 years as for the dieing part a lucky cell always mooveing too the lower body getting more nutrients too live on can live 3 weeks easy but one that passes away from it and into a cut or a heavly diseased area could possibly die in a few minutesIts the gamble of the life of a cellIf its wrong ill figure that out soon enough when I slowly lose blood and die HA! I pulled a funny in my pants!-reply by fakers go bye bye/hsaaa funny in my pants!!

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