• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

• 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!

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!

• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

• A roach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

• There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

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

-- Edited by Old Eagle on Friday 21st of September 2012 05:32:24 PM