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       WEIRD FACTS 1-10
       By: eba95 Date: July 29, 2010, 7:53 am
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       WEIRD FACTS 1-10
       Tablecloths were originally meant to
       be served as towels with which
       dinner guests could wipe their hands
       and faces after eating.
       Until the nineteenth century, solid
       blocks of tea were used as money in
       Siberia.
       Tourists visiting Iceland should
       know that tipping at a restaurant is
       considered an insult.
       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 violin contains about 70 separate
       pieces of wood.
       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.
       A sneeze travels out your mouth at
       over 100 m.p.h.
       There wasn't a single pony in the
       Pony Express, just horses.
       Fingernails grow nearly 4 times
       faster than toenails.
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