Interesting Facts: • The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child. • In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights. • In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it. • The second largest source of immigrants is from Australia’s neighbour New Zealand; making 1.70% of all immigrants. • Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process. • Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner. • Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means “apple sauce” in Japanese. • Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke. • The word Thailand means “land of the free.”
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 03:05:47 +0000
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