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Here are some facts that you probably didn´t know about.

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

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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 mustache 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!

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

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

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 

All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

Here are some interesting facts that you probably didn´t know…

* Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.

* Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.

* The game of GOLF was invented in Scotland, and for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

* The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.

* The term “spa” is derived from a town in Belgium of the same name, known for its baths and mineral springs.

* The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: Adhere and Separate.

* The word Salary was derived from the Latin salarium referring to the salt allotment for soldiers in the Roman army.

* The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes.

* Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

* Utah law states that no woman is allowed to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance.

* Ultrasound tests have revealed that male foetuses have the capability for erections in the last trimester of gestation.

* The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is “daysypgal.”

How much do you actually know about various wonders of the world?

Most of us associate Egypt with Pyramids and Sphinx, but do you know the names of three largest Pyramids build on Giza Plateau?

The largest one of them is called Pyramid of Khufu, also known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops, the somewhat smaller is called Pyramid of Khafre, also knows as Chephren, and the smallest one of them is called Pyramid of Menkaure, also known as Mykerinos.

The Great Sphinx is one of the world’s largest and oldest statues. It´s build as half-human and half-animal. Do you know which animal?

A Sphinx is a zoomorphic mythological figure which is depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head.

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.  Do you know what building material was used in constructing the tomb?

White Marble was used in building the tomb.

Christ the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Do you know how tall the statue is?

The statue stands 38 meters (120 ft) tall.

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level. What was the name of Inca emperor that build the site?

Machu Picchu was an estate of the Inca emperor, Pachacuti.

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian, was a Roman Emperor who began construction of the Colosseum. Do you know who was the one who finished the construction of the Colosseum?

The Colosseum was completed by Vespasian son, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus.

Gladiators were professional fighters in ancient Rome who fought against each other, wild animals, and condemned criminals, sometimes to the death, for the entertainment of spectators.  Do you know the name of one of the most famous gladiators?

Spartacus is the name of one of the most famous gladiators. He became the leader of a group of escaped gladiators and slaves.

Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico. Do you know the name of the most famous building at the site?

Dominating the center of Chichén is the Temple of Kukulkan (the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl), often referred to as “El Castillo” (the castle).

The Great Wall of China stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles). Do you know why it was built?

To protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of successive dynasties.

Source: wikipedia

1. Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.

2. The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.

3. Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

4. The word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.

5. Oscar was designed by MGM’s chief art director, Cedric Gibbons.

6. Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.

7. The Swift is a bird that remains airborne for 2-3 yrs, during which it sleeps, drinks, eats, and mates on the wing.

8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourage saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

9. The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.

10. “Caterpillar” means “hairy cat” in Old French.

11. There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

12. The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he’d never publish another.