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A collection of interesting facts from Pebblesbysea:

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
• Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
• It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
• If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
• IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
• The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
• In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
• During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• One in ten people live on an island.

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