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