Random Facts 18

1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
2. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
3. It takes on average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a litre of milk.
4. Horseracing regulations require no racehorse’s name to contain more than 18 letters.
5. Sheep will not drink from running water.
6. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
7. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.
8. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.
9. In Elizabethan times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
10. Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breathe and swallow simultaneously.