Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!

*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

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 are 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!


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* The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

*Most lipstick contains fish scales!

*Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

*One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

*It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!