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Here are some things I did not know . . .

- 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
- 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
- Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
- The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
- A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
- It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times
- Most lipstick contains fish scales
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet
- Cat urine glows under a black-light
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
- Thomas Edison, the lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E