Friday, 13 September 2013

[www.keralites.net] Interesting stuff you did not know

 

 Subject: Interesting stuff some of which you did 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 15,000meters

 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:

 
This is called 'money bags'. So send  this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui, the one who does not pass this on will have money troubles for the rest of  the year

 
Superstitious or not, I passed this along because it is interesting information
 

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