This is a tad long, but it is interesting and it does have some intriguing info!! Hope you enjoy!
1. 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.
2. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that
is attached at only one end.
3. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to
drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated,
its thirst mechanism shuts off.
4. Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or
die of tobacco-related diseases.
5. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented
by Roman numerals.
6. Kites were used in the American Civil War to
deliver letters and newspapers.
7. 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.
8. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in
your mouth by 61 percent.
9. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because
it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above
450F.
10. 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.
11. Nine out of every 10 living things live in
the ocean.
12. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can
be propagated only by the hand of man.
13. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer
airstrip due to lower air density.
14. The University of Alaska spans four time
zones.
15. The tooth is the only part of the human body that
cannot heal itself.
16. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl
was a traditional proposal of marriage.
Catching it meant she accepted.
17. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the
copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
18. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper
in their hair.
19. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
20. The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death
and illness than the disease it was
intended to prevent.
21. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and
other painkillers, which is why it is found
in some medicines.
22. The military salute is a motion that evolved from
medieval times, when knights in armor
raised their visors to reveal their identity.
23. 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.
24. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense
to go, the first sense lost is sight.
25. In ancient times strangers shook hands to
show that they were unarmed.
26. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds
grow on the outside.
27. Avocados have the highest calories of any
fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
28. The moon moves about two inches away from the
Earth each year.
29. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to
falling space dust.
30. Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for
mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
31. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in
Italy
32. 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.
33. Everything weighs one percent less at the
equator.
34. For every extra kilogram carried on a space
flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
35. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic
table of the elements.
And last but not least:
36. 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 rest of the year.
Superstitious or not, I passed this along because
it is interesting information.
