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Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears
out and can be recycled an infinite number of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the
ground for thousands of years.
When a person dies hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense
lost is sight.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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. Drinking a glass of water before you eat may help digestion
and curb appetite.
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.
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, which was written in 1935!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries and cashews 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 fuel are
needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears
out and can be recycled an infinite number of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the
ground for thousands of years.
When a person dies hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense
lost is sight.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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. Drinking a glass of water before you eat may help digestion
and curb appetite.
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.
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, which was written in 1935!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries and cashews 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 fuel are
needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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