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[*My Cinderella.*]

Did you know that...

1) In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

2) There is a city called Rome on every continent.

3) Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

4) Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

5) Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

6) Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

7) The average person laughs 10 times a day!

8) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

9) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

10) The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

11) The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.

12) A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

13) Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

Feel free to add more.

[x__rilind]

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
A headache can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.
According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.

^perriwinkle was my favourite colour as a child.