Now this is interesting

Now this is interesting


*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°F

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.

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