GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WORLD

• 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! 

• 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 idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! 

• 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 are made every day in the United States! 

• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill! 

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!  

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

• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! 

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! 

• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! 

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!  

• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
  

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

• One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! 

• The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

• 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! 

• Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! 

• The state of Florida is bigger than England

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

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

• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark