Did you know that...
Glass takes one
million years to decompose,
which means it never wears out and can be a 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.
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 450F.
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.
"We make a living by what we get;we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
I love great art, no matter the medium.