If you
are right
handed, you will
tend to chew
your food on the
right side of
your mouth.
If you are left
handed, you will
tend to chew your
food on the left
side of your
mouth.
To make half a
kilo of honey,
bees must collect
nectar from over 2
million individual
flowers
Heroin is the
brand name of
morphine once
marketed by
'Bayer'.
Tourists
visiting Iceland
should know that
tipping at a
restaurant is
considered an
insult!
People in nudist
colonies play
volleyball more
than any other
sport ..
Albert Einstein
was offered the
presidency of
Israel in 1952,
but he declined.
Astronauts can't
belch - there is
no gravity to
separate liquid
from gas in their
stomachs.
Ancient Roman,
Chinese and German
societies often
used urine as
mouthwash.
The Mona Lisa
has no eyebrows.
In the Renaissance
era, it was
fashion to shave
them off!
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.
The night of
January 20 is
"Saint Agnes's
Eve", which is
regarded as a time
when a young woman
dreams of her
future husband.
Google is
actually the
common name for a
number with a
million zeros ..
It takes glass
one million years
to decompose,
which means it
never wears out
and can be
recycled an
infinite amount of
times!
Gold is the only
metal that doesn't
rust, even if it's
buried in the
ground for
thousands of years
.
Your tongue is
the only muscle in
your body that is
attached at only
one end .
If you stop
getting thirsty,
you need to drink
more water. When a
human body is
dehydrated, its
thirst mechanism
shuts off.
Each year
2,000,000 smokers
either quit
smoking or die of
tobacco-related
diseases.
Zero is the only
number that cannot
be represented by
Roman numerals
Kites were used
in the American
Civil War to
deliver letters
and newspapers.
The song, Auld
Lang Syne, is sung
at the stroke of
midnight in almost
every
English-speaking
country in the
world to bring in
the new year.
Drinking water
after eating
reduces the acid
in your mouth by
61 percent
Peanut oil is
used for cooking
in submarines
because it doesn't
smoke unless it's
heated above 450?F
The roar that we
hear when we place
a seashell next to
our ear is not the
ocean, but rather
the sound of blood
surging through
the veins in the
ear.
Nine out of
every 10 living
things live in the
ocean
The banana
cannot reproduce
itself. It can be
propagated only by
the hand of man
Airports at
higher altitudes
require a longer
airstrip due to
lower air density
The University
of Alaska spans
four time zones
The tooth is the
only part of the
human body that
cannot heal
itself.
In ancient
Greece , tossing
an apple to a girl
was a traditional
proposal of
marriage. Catching
it meant she
accepted.
Warner
Communications
paid $28 million
for the copyright
to the song Happy
Birthday.
Intelligent
people have more
zinc and copper in
their hair.
A comet's tail
always points away
from the sun
The Swine Flu
vaccine in 1976
caused more death
and illness than
the disease it was
intended to
prevent
Caffeine
increases the
power of aspirin
and other
painkillers, that
is why it is found
in some medicines.
The military
salute is a motion
that evolved from
medieval times,
when knights in
armor raised their
visors to reveal
their identity.
If you get into
the bottom of a
well or a tall
chimney and look
up, you can see
stars, even in the
middle of the day.
When a person
dies, hearing is
the last sense to
go. The first
sense lost is
sight
In ancient times
strangers shook
hands to show that
they were unarmed
Strawberries are
the only fruits
whose seeds grow
on the outside
Avocados have
the highest
calories of any
fruit at 167
calories per
hundred grams
The moon moves
about two inches
away from the
Earth each year
The Earth gets
100 tons heavier
every day due to
falling space dust
Due to earth's
gravity it is
impossible for
mountains to be
higher than 15,000
meters
Mickey Mouse is
known as
"Topolino" in
Italy
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
Everything
weighs one percent
less at the
equator
For every extra
kilogram carried
on a space flight,
530 kg of excess
fuel are needed at
lift-off
The letter J
does not appear
anywhere on the
periodic table of
the elements.
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