1,Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
2,The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
3, The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
4,The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
5, Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
6,Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
7, The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
8, A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
9, Most lipstick contains fish scales!
10, The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
11,No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
12,A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
13,The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
14,Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
15,A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
16,The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
17,Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
18,The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
19,A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
20,In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
21,It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
MONKEY SHINES
There was once a hat-seller who passed by a forest on his way back from the market. The weather was very hot and so he decided to take a nap under one of the trees, so he left his whole basket of hats by the side.
A few hours later, he woke up by some sounds. The next thing he realized was that all his hats was gone. He heard some monkeys on the tree and so he looked up. To his surprise, the tree was full of monkeys and they had taken all his hats.
The hat-seller sits down and think of how he can get the hats down. He think and think and start scratching his head. The next moment, he realized that the monkeys were doing the same action.
Next, he took down his own hat and saw the monkeys do exactly the same. An idea came to him, he took his hat and throw it on the floor and the monkeys do that too.
So he finally managed to get all his hats back. If you think you have read this before….., read on!!!
Fifty years later, his grandson, Jack, also became a hat-seller and had heard this monkey story from his grandfather.
One day, just like his grandfather, he passed by the same forest, it was very hot, and he took a nap under the same tree and left the hats on the floor. He woke up and realized that all his hats were gone. He looked up and realized that the monkeys had taken all the hats. He remembered his grand father's words, started scratching his head and the monkeys follows.
He took down his hat and fanned himself and again the monkeys followed. Now, very convinced of his grandfather's idea, Jack threw his hat on the floor but to his surprise, the monkeys still hold on to all the hats.
Then one monkey climbed down the tree, grabbed the hat on the floor, gave him a slap and said "You think only you have a grandfather".
A few hours later, he woke up by some sounds. The next thing he realized was that all his hats was gone. He heard some monkeys on the tree and so he looked up. To his surprise, the tree was full of monkeys and they had taken all his hats.
The hat-seller sits down and think of how he can get the hats down. He think and think and start scratching his head. The next moment, he realized that the monkeys were doing the same action.
Next, he took down his own hat and saw the monkeys do exactly the same. An idea came to him, he took his hat and throw it on the floor and the monkeys do that too.
So he finally managed to get all his hats back. If you think you have read this before….., read on!!!
Fifty years later, his grandson, Jack, also became a hat-seller and had heard this monkey story from his grandfather.
One day, just like his grandfather, he passed by the same forest, it was very hot, and he took a nap under the same tree and left the hats on the floor. He woke up and realized that all his hats were gone. He looked up and realized that the monkeys had taken all the hats. He remembered his grand father's words, started scratching his head and the monkeys follows.
He took down his hat and fanned himself and again the monkeys followed. Now, very convinced of his grandfather's idea, Jack threw his hat on the floor but to his surprise, the monkeys still hold on to all the hats.
Then one monkey climbed down the tree, grabbed the hat on the floor, gave him a slap and said "You think only you have a grandfather".
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