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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.
In
2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently
happens once every 823 years!
This
is called 'money bags'. So send this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5
days.
Based
on Chinese Feng Shui, the one who does not pass this on will have money troubles
for the
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