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Some (what I think) Interesting and Fun facts ...

Arizona1950 2012/08/21 01:49:34
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'

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

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 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

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!

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?

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, whenknights 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.

And last but not least:

In 2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!****
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  • Always Right 2012/08/21 20:44:54
    Always Right
    December 2012 does not have 5 Fridays, it has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays and 5 Saturdays.
  • Arizona... Always ... 2012/08/22 01:54:40
    Arizona1950
    +1
    I didn't check it ... just posted it as a fun thing from a friend. But I do see that December 2012 does have 5 Saturdays 5 Sundays, and 5 Mondays.
  • Always ... Arizona... 2012/08/22 03:36:02
    Always Right
    +1
    I understand. I happen to have a 2012 calendar handy.
  • The Birdman 2012/08/21 03:40:04
    The Birdman
    +1
    Fun stuff! Thanks!
  • Arizona... The Bir... 2012/08/21 03:41:37
    Arizona1950
    +1
    Glad you enjoyed! :-)
  • Flor de Luna 2012/08/21 02:15:55
    Flor de Luna
    +1
    Really interesting!
    The first one though doesn't apply to me.I am right handed and always chew on the left side of my mouth.
  • Arizona... Flor de... 2012/08/21 03:09:06
    Arizona1950
    I tend to do the same ... but I remember my mom telling me I was a south-paw as a kid and she switched me.
  • Flor de... Arizona... 2012/08/21 03:14:12
    Flor de Luna
    +1
    Wow! I wonder if my mother did that to me? Absolutely no one in my family is left handed.LOL! I know some people thought of it as being bad.I always thought lefties were cool.Neither of my kids were left handed and I know I wouldn't have tried to change it if they had been.
  • Arizona... Flor de... 2012/08/21 03:30:57
    Arizona1950
    In the day ... it was frowned upon and I was the only one in the family who favored my left. I still throw a ball better with my left than my right.
  • Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel 2012/08/21 02:10:00 (edited)
    Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel
    +1
    Wow! Thanks! I'm impressed and have learned allot!

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  • Arizona... Annie~P... 2012/08/21 03:09:41
    Arizona1950
    +1
    Glad you enjoyed! :-)
  • Red_Horse 2012/08/21 02:08:14
  • Arizona... Red_Horse 2012/08/21 03:10:03
    Arizona1950
    +1
    I thought so too ... glad you enjoyed! :-)
  • Red_Horse Arizona... 2012/08/21 03:15:25
  • sglmom 2012/08/21 01:53:06
    sglmom
    +2
    Good Post!

    Interestingly enough ..
    I've tried and tried ..
    to explain to one particular male ..
    (trained as an Artist) ..
    about the Mona Lisa ..
    (the size of the painting and the details) ..

    HE keeps arguing with me about that painting
    (and I've actually stood right there .. even have the photo I took of the REAL Mona Lisa in the Louvre .. )

    just boggles my mind how one can deny what is truth ..
  • Arizona... sglmom 2012/08/21 01:58:19
    Arizona1950
    +1
    LOL ... yes it does! :-)
  • ṃεταllïс_ḋќ[сhατвøχ]
    +3
    Cool,now excuse me,I'm going to go brush my teeth with urine.
  • Arizona... ṃεταllï... 2012/08/21 01:58:47
    Arizona1950
    +1
    Ewwww ... but who am I to judge ... lol
  • tommyg ... ṃεταllï... 2012/08/21 03:13:29

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