Did You Know?

[Penny Lane]

DID YOU KNOW....................



IT TAKES GLASS
one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be
recycled an infinite amount of times!
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Gold is the
only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for
thousands of years.
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Your tongue is
the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
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If you stop
getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
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Each year
2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related
diseases.
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Zero is the
only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
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Kites were
used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and
newspapers.
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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.
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Drinking water
after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
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Peanut oil is
used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated
above 450F.
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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.
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Nine out of
every 10 living things live in the ocean.
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The banana
cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of
man.
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Airports at
higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air
density.
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The University
of Alaska spans four time zones.
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The tooth is
the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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In ancient
Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of
marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
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Warner
Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy
Birthday.
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Intelligent
people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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A comet's tail
always points away from the sun.
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The Swine Flu
vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was
intended to prevent.
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Caffeine
increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is
found in some medicines.
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The military
salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor
raised their visors to reveal their identity.
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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.
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When a person
dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is
sight.
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In ancient
times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
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Strawberries
are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
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Avocados have
the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred
grams.
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The moon moves
about two inches away from the Earth each year.
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The Earth gets
100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Due to earth's
gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000
meters.
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Mickey Mouse
is known as "Topolino" in Italy .
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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.
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Everything
weighs one percent less at the equator.
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For every
extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed
at lift-off.
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The letter J
does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the
elements.

[AB]

That's pretty interesting.

[Furienna]

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.

So silver can rust?

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

That makes no sense at all. Why would you not be thirsty if you're getting dehydrated? That would really be the time for you to drink, right? Then again, when I was in Italy in a heat of 41 degrees Celsius, I got a headache rather than becoming thirsty, so I don't know...

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

True, as the ancient Romans had no concept of the number zero.

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.

But I thought it was the sound of the air going through the seashell?

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

That makes no sense. The banana must have reproduced itself, without any help from humans, if we go far enough back in time?

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

So how can my front tooth look okay now, when it got slightly damaged many years ago? I never had a dentist fix it.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

That would make sense, as the heat from the sun would make a comet (which really is a huge dirty ball of ice) start melting. The comet's tail is really is really melting ice!

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.

This is another one, that doesn't make sense. Stars aren't visible in daylight, no matter where you stand.

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

Yep, knew that.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

But then shouldn't we eventually reach a point, where the Earth collapses under the weight of the space dust?

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

So how come even Mount Everest is lower than 9000 metres?

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

Yes, and they call Donald Duck "Paperino".

�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.

I dunno if I believe in these three. It just sounds too weird..

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

Hm yeah, that might be true.

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for
thousands of years.

Aluminum doesn't rust either and it cannot be attracted by a magnet.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

If you stop
getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Hmm some of these sound off........

When Im thirsty I can usually thankfully tell

[Penny Lane]

One of the most expensive and sought-after Coffees in the world is called "Kopi luwak" or Civet Coffee.
It's made from Coffee Cherries literally stool out by an Asian Civet. The digestion process causes the beans to ferment making them an extraordinary quality.

[Dude111]

Yuk

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

The tooth is
the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

Comfrey Root is supposed to be very good for healing those bones...