| 3201/
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells
per second.
3202/ The king of hearts
is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing
card!
3203/ The names of Popeye's
four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
3204/ Your ribs move
about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
3205/ Honolulu is the
only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
3206/ 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!
3207/ It is estimated
that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations
by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the
United States!
3208/ Almost half the
newspapers in the world are published in the United States
and Canada!
3209/ In Louisiana, a
bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives
that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.
3210/ Frogs have very
special skin! They don't just wear it, they drink and breathe
through it. Frogs don't usually swallow water like we do.
Instead they absorb most of the moisture they need through
their skin. Not only that, but frogs also rely on getting
extra oxygen (in addition to what they get from their lungs)
from the water by absorbing it through their skin.
3211/ Central Park in
the middle of Manhattan covers a larger area than the principality
of Monaco.
3212/ The Dutch supposedly
bought Manhattan from its Native American inhabitants for
about $24 worth of trinkets.
3213/ The Death Cap,
Amanita phalloides is responsible for 90% of deaths caused
by fungus poisoning world-wide.
3214/ The Sahara, one
of the world’s largest and driest deserts with sand
up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers,
humid swamps and lush fields. Cave painting, 9,000 years old,
found in the heart of the Sahara, show men herding cattle
and hunting lions and hippos. About 2,000 years ago the cave
painters, herders and animals left because the area that was
rapidly becoming the desert we know today.
3215/ The human heart
creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
3216/ A law was made
on July 16, 1969 saying that it's illegal for US citizens
to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
3217/ More than 50 percent
of the people in the world have never made or received a phone
call.
3218/ Official FDA guidelines
say that whole pepper can be sold with up to one percent of
the volume including rodent dung.
3219/ Mosquito repellents
don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's
sensors so they don't know you're there.
3220/ In 1909, Nevada
became the first state to outlaw gambling.
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