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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