---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Radhakrishnan Nerur Ramanathan > Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Bag of info....
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Krishnan.N <> wrote > > > > 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. > > > *I passed this along because it is interesting information.* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
