Trivial facts

[LovelyLadyLux]

FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW.....................



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.

[Grandad]

There are a few there that I might challenge LLL

I always understood that Chromium, Platinum and Titanium ranked with gold as being non corrosive.

And these three,
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
Prove it!

[LovelyLadyLux]

Mostly I'm worried about all the excess weight from the space dust..........Can't talk now - gotta go shovel out my driveway as the dust is mounting up!

Hardly think the height of mountains has anything to do with gravity. I'll believe that one when rocks at the top start floating about