Did You Know.....

In the interest of lightening up the load, here are some factoids for those so inclined (hell, some of them may actually be true):


Did you know...

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left hinder, 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!

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 bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne

Goggle 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 2,000,000smokers 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 Sine, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking 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 pain killers, 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 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.

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 instep 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.

And last but not least :
In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!

In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years! Originally Posted by Randy4Candy

I would have spent more time fact checking... but- if you use your computer calendar to go back to 1994... you will see that July of that year ALSO has 5 weekends.... that was a fast 823 years!

LOL, "apparently" not...so it goes with reposting things that come to one via the dubya-dubya-dubya...hee hee (hence the disclaimer in the first line).

Goggle is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros

The word is correctly spelled googol.


Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years

Rust is iron oxide. Other metals corrode with the exception of platinum which decomposes in the same manner as gold. They decompose spontaneously into pure metal.

Soldiers do not march instep when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down

You're concerned here with resonant frequencies. Discovery Channel's Mythbusters attempted to duplicate this and Tesla's earthquake machine. Neither worked. This link should take you to Episode 60 "Earthquake Machine".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...hquake_Machine Originally Posted by Randy4Candy

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Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Close. It's Bayer's brand name for diacetylmorphine, a more potent morphine derivative. Aspirin also originated as a Bayer brand name

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
"Only one instance of a Roman numeral for zero is known. About 725, Bede or one of his colleagues used the letter N, the initial of nulla, in a table of epacts, all written in Roman numerals."

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.
Partially, but not entirely. If I had to bet, the blood rushing makes up a relatively small percentage of the overall seashell resonance

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.
Specifically, she was the goddess of crossroads with three paths, making her the goddess of three ways (sort of)

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Technically not. Those aren't seeds, those are achenes and the actual seeds are inside of those. The fleshy sweet bit is part of the stem.

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
It doesn't always move away, and the rate isn't constant. The distance is somewhat cyclic, and it gets closer some years too. Last month, it was closer at full phase than it's been since '93.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
On average, the Earth accumulates somewhere around 10 thousand to 1 million tonnes of meteorites per year on average (or so says Tulane). That'd be about 28 to 280 tonnes more mass per day. Originally Posted by Randy4Candy

Gotta love them random facts.