60 Facts You May Not Know!!!

  1. 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. 
  2. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers 
  3. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'. 
  4. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam. 
  5. 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%. 
  6. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport. 
  7. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. 
  8. Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. 
  9. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash. 
  10. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 
  11. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off! 
  12. 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. 
  13. 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. 
  14. There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne 
  15. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros 
  16. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! 
  17. Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years 
  18. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end 
  19. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. 
  20. Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases. 
  21. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage. 
  22. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals 
  23. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers. 
  24. 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. 
  25. For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place. 
  26. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent 
  27. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F 
  28. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells 
  29. 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. 
  30. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean 
  31. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man 
  32. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density 
  33. Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces 
  34. The University of Alaska spans four time zones 
  35. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself. 
  36. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted. 
  37. 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). 
  38. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday. 
  39. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 
  40. A comet's tail always points away from the sun 
  41. The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent 
  42. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines. 
  43. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity. 
  44. 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. 
  45. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight 
  46. Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and 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. 
  47. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed 
  48. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside 
  49. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams 
  50. It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines 
  51. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year 
  52. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust 
  53. Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters 
  54. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left 
  55. Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy. 
  56. 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 
  57. 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. 
  58. J. K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by writing books. 
  59. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off 
  60. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements