Strange, but true facts:

 

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

 

• 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!

 

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!

 

• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

 

• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

 

• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

 

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

 

• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

 

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

 

• There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

 

• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

 

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

 

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Retired Teacher on a quest for more knowledge and happiness.