Wedding facts and facts about weddings, from the Random Facts shelf.
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According to the federal Center for Substance Abuse prevention, "For kids under twenty-one, there is no difference between
alcohol and other drug use and abuse." Incredibly, it makes no distinction between a self-reliant 20 year old toasting his love at their wedding reception with a sip of champagne and a drug-addicted 20 year old doing crack cocaine!
Munich's Oktoberfest began in 1810 as a celebration of the wedding of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese.
Weddings are held in Luray Caverns.
The daffodil is the flower for the 10th wedding anniversary.
The peony is the flower for the 12th wedding anniversary.
One of the first X-ray images ever taken showed the bones of Röntgen's wife's hand, with her wedding ring.