February 10, 2007

• In Tibet it is good manners to stick your tongue out at guests.
   
• If you invite an Arab family to dine with you do not be surprised if they burp loudly after the meal. They are only being polite and showing you how much they enjoyed the food.
   
• At some Greek weddings, guests do not give presents to the bride and groom, but pin money on to the bride’s dress.
   
• TheJapanese do not shake hands when they meet or say good bye, they bow instead.
   
• It has never rained cats or dogs, but it has rained fish! Sometimes fish are sucked up by a tornado, like a vacuum cleaner sucking up dust. The fish can be carried a long way in the wind before dropping to the ground.
   
• “Kung fu” in Chinese means play time.
   
• In some restaurants in China you can choose a snake which is cooked for you there and then.
   
• In Tokyo there is a restaurant for dogs.
   
• The song ‘Happy birthday to you’ is the world’s most popular song. It is sung in almost every country.
   
• There are more dogs in Paris than there are children.
   
• There are 20 times as many sheep in New Zealand as there are people.
   
• The Bible is the world’s bestselling book. Over 2,600,000,000 copies have been sold in over 300 languages.

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