Intresting Facts

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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, when 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, were 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!

Stupid Question & Sharp Answer

BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy.



GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!
BOY : You love me...



GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring??
BOY : Sure, what's your phone number??



GIRL : I think the poorest people are the happiest.
BOY : Then marry me and we'll be the happiest couple



GIRL : Darling, I want to dance like this forever.
BOY : Don't you ever want to improve??



BOY : I love you and I could die for you!
GIRL : How soon??



BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!
GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??



SHARON : Have you ever had a hot passionate, burning kiss??
TRACY : I did once. He'd forgotten to take the cigarette out of his mouth.



MAN : You remind me of the sea.
WOMAN : Because I'm wild, romantic and exciting?
MAN : NO, because you make me sick.



WIFE : You tell a man something, it goes in one ear and comes out of the other.
HUSBAND : You tell a woman something: It goes in both ears and comes out of the mouth.



MARY : John says I'm pretty. Andy says I'm ugly.What do u think, Peter?
PETER : A bit of both. I think you're pretty ugly.



Girlfriend : "...And are you sure you love me and no one else ?"
Boyfriend : "Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday".



Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun or the moon?"
Pupil : "The moon".
Teacher : "Why?"
Pupil : "The moon gives us light at night when we need it but the sun gives us light only in the day time when we don't need it".



Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?"
Pupil : "A teacher".



Waiter : "Would you like your coffee black?"
Customer : "What other colors do you have?



Teacher : "Sam, you talk a lot !"
Sam : "It's a family tradition".
Teacher : "What do you mean?"
Sam : "Sir, my grandpa was a street hawker, my father is a teacher".
Teacher : "What about your mother?"
Sam : "She's a woman".



Tom : "How should I convey the news to my father that I've failed?"
David: "You just send a telegram: Result declared, past year's performance repeated".
Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing?"
Student : "Brotherly love".



Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"
Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook".



Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering doctor?"
Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of ten people die of the disease you have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others all died".



Teacher : "Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"
One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time."



Teacher : "George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him ?"
One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."