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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Know some interesting facts

That the average person walks 2,000 miles a year.

That one quarter of the bones in your body are in your foot.

That there are 18 muscles in the human foot.

That the first known images of footwear are boots depicted in 15,000 year old Spanish cave paintings .

That the boots Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in are still floating around in space!

That shoes were originally made as straights and could be worn on either foot. Left and right shoes only asserted themselves with the reintroduction of the high heel in the nineteenth century.

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