Wednesday, May 09, 2007

And now, the long awaited Strange and Interesting Facts!

  • The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

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

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

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

    A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

    Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

    Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!

    Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

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

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

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmmmm...... interesting.......

Anonymous said...

that was me, your sister, Bethany.-The fist person to coment! :)

Anonymous said...

nice, I knew about the tea, but, not those other things,

Lucia said...

Very interesting... I wonder if the Egyptians got headaches.

Anonymous said...

Those are really strange!