Trivia

[annie]

Haven't checked all these to see if they are true

• Glass takes 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.
• 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 point 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

[JaneJ]

Those were so interesting. Thank you.