Trivia| Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year. In London, it is a 24 hour detainment if caught sticking gum under a seat on the upper deck of a bus. |
| In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies. In San Salvador drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad. |
| In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking was put to death. The second national city of the United States is Port Angeles, WA, designated by Abraham Lincoln. That's where they would move the capital if something happened to Washington D.C. |
| Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in the United States is that of
Sanitation Worker. Firemen and Policeman are a close second and third, follwed
by Leather Tanners in fourth. The average American uses 12.4 gallons of water to take a shower which lasts on the average 10.4 minutes at an average temperature of 105 degrees farenheit. |
| The first Rolls-Royce sold for $600.00 in 1906. Today the cheapest model goes
for close to $200,000. The largest painting measures 92,419 square feet and was completed by ID Cultur in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 14, 1996. |
| There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening
moves in a game of chess. In Milan, Italy there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in hospitals or attending funerals. Otherwise the fine is $100 if they are seen in public without a smile on their face. |
| Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking
coffee was put to death. There are more people in New York City (7,895,563) than there are in the states of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Hawaii, Delaware, and New Mexico combined. |
| There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C. There are more television sets in the United States than there are people in Japan. |
| Americans spend more on dog food every year than they spend on baby food. When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour. |
| Banging your head against a wall can burn up to 150 caleries per hour. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. |
| It is estimated that on average, there are 61,000 people airborn over the USA all
the time. It is estimated that the average person living in North Americia opens the fridge 22 times daily. |
| More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. Most American made car horns beep in the tone of F. |
| On a bingo card of ninety numbers there are approximately 44 million ways to
make B-I-N-G-O. Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes. |
| Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending
machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been
injured. In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle. |
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