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 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
of the elements.
