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EnglishLady

Veteran Expediter
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

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 violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
 
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Turtle

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Retired Expediter
The British think 100 miles is a long drive.
Americans think 100 years is a long time.
 

EnglishLady

Veteran Expediter
The British think 100 miles is a long drive.


But it is :eek:
LOL

Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.

The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

No president of the United States was an only child.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth
 

moose

Veteran Expediter
There are more plastics flamingo in the US then real one's .

(O'h com'on ,am i the only one to use the J ? )
 

moose

Veteran Expediter
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

a word of Cation ,for anyone planing of driving in the HollyLand .

if you drive a car in the right lane ,turn on the Blinker light in preparations of changing to the left lane .
when the car behind you flashes it's light - it's mean one thing ,and one thing only : don't even thing about it ,the lane is NOT clear .
 
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