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Very Interesting Anecdotes


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.














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posted on Apr 7, 2011 1:07 PM ()

Comments:

So- you passed your list off to us to ensure your prosperity this year?
comment by dragonflyby on Apr 9, 2011 8:10 AM ()
Maybe.
reply by fredo on Apr 9, 2011 1:15 PM ()
Liked the unusual facts. Maybe this will come in handy the next time I play trivial pursuit.
comment by redimpala on Apr 8, 2011 4:10 PM ()
Good luck on the trivia game.
reply by fredo on Apr 9, 2011 5:48 AM ()

That was a great piece of information., I enjoyed reading it...

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comment by jackettop on Apr 8, 2011 1:33 AM ()
thank you for stopping by.
reply by fredo on Apr 8, 2011 9:19 AM ()
What an extensive list! They were fun tho.
comment by kristilyn3 on Apr 7, 2011 6:24 PM ()
Yes,it was quite a list and fun to read.
reply by fredo on Apr 8, 2011 9:20 AM ()
I will never use urine as a mouthwash and you couldn 't make me do it either. I tried fengshui once when I was very broke but despite putting
a purple pillow in the prescribed direction, it didn't help.
comment by elderjane on Apr 7, 2011 5:21 PM ()
Yes,sounds very gross to me.
reply by fredo on Apr 8, 2011 9:21 AM ()
neato...thanks for sharing
comment by panthurdreams on Apr 7, 2011 2:47 PM ()
Thanks for stopping by.
reply by fredo on Apr 7, 2011 3:46 PM ()
These are very interesting facts.
comment by tealstar on Apr 7, 2011 2:37 PM ()
Thanks Teal.
reply by fredo on Apr 8, 2011 9:20 AM ()
Very, very, very interesting, but the last one isn't true. July having five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays occurs much more often than every 823 years. It happened in 2005, 1994, 1988, 1983…and it will happen again in 2016, 2022 and so on. And it's not a feng shui bad luck thing if you don't pass it on. https://fengshuiform.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/here’s-a-real-feng-shui-cure-for-the-money-bags-hoax/
comment by troutbend on Apr 7, 2011 2:23 PM ()
I am sure that it is.Who believed in the stuff.As far as how many Fridays or Sundays.Do people really see this.I know that I do not see how many that they are.Never heard of this fengshuiform.I am sure most of this is fantasy.
reply by fredo on Apr 7, 2011 2:41 PM ()

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