Posted on 01/21/2018 5:03:41 AM PST by sodpoodle
Glass takes 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.
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.
I just didn’t want you trying to lift weights or anything.
Besides, everyone knows it’s really a weather vane. Any way the wind blows...
Hard to believe that one. I’d have to try it out to believe it.
I think this thing may be a bit of a gullibility test.
Reminds me of the doctor in “Family guy” that said, “You know, if we stretched your small intestine end to end, it would go around the world almost two times.”
And as the dad pointed out, that would mean his burrito would have to travel faster than the speed of sound to make it out the other end by the next day.
Deb and Jen’s Land O’ Useless Facts - Still around after than more than 20 years...
http://haruth.com/stories/Non%20Harry/trivia.htm
You should see my bench press! Or was that my wench press? And don’t try to muscle in on this one. It’s my wrench. NUTS, I never seem to get anything wright. (tag line)
Gold may be resistant to rust, but so are platinum, chromium, and palladium.
Rust is oxidation, similar to a slow burn. Gold does oxidize. It also tarnishes and corrodes.
Gold is resistant to these things, but they still happen.
The Bible comments on this in
James 5:3
Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
Somehow I am thinking I want to go on a picnic with these 3 ladies.
There are 4 billion plus insects to every person in the world.
My banana trees are not helped in any way.
with the B52’s song Junebug playing in the background
The redhead looks baked and the brunette is clearly showing signs that shes trying imagine what I look like with a hatchet in my head which suggests she isnt the clever plotting serial killer, just an escaped loon.
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