Things you may not know

  • If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, ! you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. 
  • To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers 
  • Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'. 
  • Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
  • Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! In America tipping is forced upon customer at 15 to 18%.
  • People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
  • Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. 
  • Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash. 
  • The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 
  • The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off! 
  • Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds. 
  • The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband. 
  • There are over 25 million b! ubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne 
  • Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros 
  • It takes glass ! one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! 
  • The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale 
  • 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. 
  • When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage. 
  • 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-s! peaking country in the world to bring in the new year. 
  • For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place. 
  • 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 Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells 
  • 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 
  • Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces 
  • 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. 
  • Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 
  • 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 
  • Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards an! d was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach. 
  • 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 
  • It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines 
  • 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 
  • Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left 
  • 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
  • The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged.
  • 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