Some more interesting facts

- The builders of the great pyramids of Egypt were paid onions, radishes and garlic by the Pharaoh.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.And it is impossible to yawn with your eyes closed!.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Believe it or not, Abraham Lincoln, the first U.S. president to sport a beard, grew it at the suggestion of eleven-year old girl, Grace Bedell. This young girl from Westfield New York sent a letter to Lincoln saying: ``you would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be president.’’ Lincoln took this little girl’s advice and grew a beard. And yes, he did become president soon after! When Lincoln met Grace later on, he kissed her and said: ‘You see, the whiskers grow for you Grace.’’
- The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
- If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the
total is the number 666.
- Scientists believe that Africa and South America were once joined but the earth’s movement separated them. If you look at the coastlines of each continent they look as though they would fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
- Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
- The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.