Showing posts with label Facinating Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facinating Facts. Show all posts

4/11/2011

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1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth, and if you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
2. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
3. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
4. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
5. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
6. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
7. Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
8. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
9. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off.
10. Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
11. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
12. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
13. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
14. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
15. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
16. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
17. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
18. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F.
19. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
20. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
21. The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
22. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
23. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
24. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
25. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
26. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
27. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
28. In ancient times, strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
29. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
30. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
31. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
32. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
33. Due to earth's gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
34. Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
35. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
36. In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!

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