Interesting facts # 294

Tibetans drink tea made of salt and rancid yak butter

Until 1834, it was illegal for any soldier of the U.S. Army to carry the American flag into battle.

Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.

Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high.

No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.