Knowledge Sharing - Day 6
1. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.2. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
3. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
4. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
5. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
6. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
7. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
8. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
9. 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.
10. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.