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Default Some strange and Interesting facts and laws.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!


The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

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

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

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!

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!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

some strange Laws (most of whicch are not used, though still intact)

Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.

In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.

source: http://www.strangefacts.com/
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