Geographical Bizzare Facts

• New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790 .
  
   
• 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the widest road in the world.
  
   
• The McDonalds in Paris has white arches rather than golden ones, yellow was perceived as tacky.
  
   
• Americans consume over 4,000 cups of coffee per second, per day.
  
   
• In England, in the 1880's pants was considered a dirty word.
  
   
• In the U.S. alone an estimated 800 people are injured by their jewelery evey week.
  
   
• In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'finger-lickin' good' came out as 'eat your fingers off.'
  
   
• Dildo is a town in Newfoundland, Canada.
  
   
• Canada is home to the invention of ice beer. It is produced by freezing the brew and filtering the ice crystals, increasing the alcohol content.
  
   
• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

• Las Vegas has the most chapels per capita than any other U.S. city.
  
   
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  
   
• In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
  
   
• In the USA - more toilets flush at the half time of the Super Bowl than at any other time of the year.
  
   
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
  
   
• The amount of money spent in US schools on trash disposal is equal to the amount of money spent on textbooks
  
   
• In Elizabethan England women wore egg whites over their faces to create a glazed look.
  
   
• Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
  
   
• In the province of Saskatchewan, Canada there are towns by the name of Elbow and Eyebrow
  
   
• Canada has more donut shops per-capita than any other country in the world

• Researchers don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people.
  
   
• Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
  
   
• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
  
   
• Voodoo originated in Haiti.
   

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