*In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
*There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
*Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
*The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
*There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
*The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
*Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
*A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
*Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
*It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
*Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
*Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
*Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
*Porcupines float in water!
*The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
*The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
*The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
*The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
*The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
*The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
*It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
*It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
*Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
*In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
*There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
*A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
*Slugs have 4 noses!
*Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
*The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
*Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
*A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
*An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
*Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
*In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
*Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
*The tradition of a best man has its origin with the Germanic Goths, when it was customary and preferable for a man to marry a woman from within his own community. When women came into short supply "locally," eligible bachelors would have to seek out and capture a bride from a neighboring community. As you might guess, this was not a one-person operation, and so the future bridegroom would be accompanied by a male companion who would help. Our custom of the best man is a throwback to that two-man, strong-armed tactic, for, of course the future groom would select only the best man he knew to come along for such an important task.
The role of the best man evolved. By 200 A.D. his task was still more than just safeguarding the ring. There remained a real threat that the bride's family would attempt to forcibly obtain her return, so the best man remained at the groom's side throughout the marriage ceremony, alert and well-armed. He continued his duties after the ceremony by standing guard as sentry outside the newlywed's home. Much of this is German folklore, but is not without written documentation and physical artifacts. We have records that indicate that beneath the altars of many churches of early peoples (the Huns, Goths, Visigoths, and Vandals) there lay an arsenal of clubs, knives, and spears. The indication is that these were there to protect the groom from possible attack by the bride's family in an attempt to recapture her
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