For Shoe Trivia Buffs

Here’s a few tidbits for shoe trivia buffs!

• The boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon are still floating around space.
• Sneakers were first made in America in 1916.
• It took until the nineteenth century for “right” and “left” shoes to be created. Before then, both shoes were the same.
• Glamour magazine found that the average woman will buy 469 pairs of shoes in her lifetime.
• In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on. laces are ok.
• In China, one of the bride’s red shoes is tossed from the roof to ensure happiness for the couple.
• The Bata shoe museum in Toronto, Canada is the only shoe museum in North America.
•  At birth a foot contains 22 bones. By school age, the number is 45. Then over the next decade and a bit, the bones fuse to create the 26 bones of the adult foot.
•  Altocalciphilia is the condition of having a high heel fetish.
• In the Middle East, heels were added to shoes to lift the foot from the burning sand.

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