Monday, July 14, 2008

Random Facts #15

1. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
2. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
3. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
4. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
5. The average person laughs about fifteen times a day.
6 . 50,000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells while you have been reading this sentence.
7. By law, every child in Belgium must take a harmonica lesson at primary school.
8. While performing her duties as Queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
9. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
10. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windshield wipers were all invented by women.

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