- Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
- Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice cream sundae in Evanston, IL, in 1875.
- Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.
- Leonardo da Vinci played the viola.
- Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. He was still working on the painting when he emigrated to France in 1516 and is believed to have finished it three years later, just before he died. The painting has remained in France ever since and is owned by the state. It once hung in Napoleon's bedroom.
- Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
- Light is electro-magnetic radiation.
- Lighting strikes the Earth about 200 times a second.
- Lions have been exported to Africa by Windsor Safari Park in England.
- Little Jackie Paper was the name of Puff the Magic Dragon's human friend.
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