*STUFF I DID NOT KNOW.* - 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 450 F. - 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. - Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. - 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. __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
