True amazing facts

TRUE AMAZING FACTS.
¦You can visit half of the world's 10 largest lakes by visiting a single country: Canada. The five lakes are Great Bear, Great Slave, Erie, Huron, and Superior.
¦Plastic bags take up less landfill space than paper bags. According to one study, two plastic bags take up 72% less landfill space than one paper bag.
¦Black-eyed peas aren't peas, but beans. And coffee beans aren't beans, but seeds
¦.Roger Ebert and Oprah Winfrey went on a couple dates in the mid-1980s. It was Roger who convinced her to syndicate her talk show
¦.The bikini wax has been around for hundreds of years. Muslim brides-to-be in the Middle East and North Africa remove all their body hair before the wedding night
¦.There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica
¦.Tattoos have been around for a long time. Ancient Greeks used them to brand spies, Romans used them to mark slaves, Maori used them as symbols of rank and lineage, and Ainu women were tattooed as a prerequisite for marriage and the afterlife.
¦There are 293 ways to make change for a U.S. dollar.
¦Water itself does not conduct electricity, but the impurities found in water do.
¦In 1914, Henry Ford doubled the daily wage for his factory workers (from $2.40 to $5) while cutting their daily work hours from nine to eight.
¦King James IV of Scotland was an amateur dentist. He even paid people to let him practice on their teeth! OUCH!!
¦In 1939, Hitler’s nephew wrote an article called “Why I Hate My Uncle.” He came to the U.S., served in the Navy, and settled on Long Island.
¦The first disposable diaper was called a “boater.”
¦The antennae sticking out the head of a snail aren't feelers; a snail's eyes are located at the tips of those long stalks.
¦One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. So you now understand why your feet really hurt!