\nSome of these have been around before, but ointeresting none the less. And for those of us who are getting a little bit on in years, we tend to forget them \ud83d\ude06 <\/p>\n
\tIf you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.<\/p>\n
\tIf you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.<\/p>\n
\tTo make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers<\/p>\n
\tHeroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by ‘Bayer’.<\/p>\n
\tTourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!<\/p>\n
\tPeople in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport ..<\/p>\n
\tAlbert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.<\/p>\n
\tAstronauts can’t belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.<\/p>\n
\tAncient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.<\/p>\n
\tThe Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!<\/p>\n
\tBecause 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.<\/p>\n
\tThe night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes’s Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.<\/p>\n
\tGoogle is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros ..<\/p>\n
\tIt takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!<\/p>\n
\tGold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years .<\/p>\n
\tYour tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end .<\/p>\n
\tIf you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.<\/p>\n
\tEach year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.<\/p>\n
\tZero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals<\/p>\n
\tKites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.<\/p>\n
\tThe 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.<\/p>\n
\tDrinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent<\/p>\n
\tPeanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450?F<\/p>\n
\tThe 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.<\/p>\n
\tNine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean<\/p>\n
\tThe banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man<\/p>\n
\tAirports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density<\/p>\n
\tThe University of Alaska spans four time zones<\/p>\n
\tThe tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.<\/p>\n
\tIn ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.<\/p>\n
\tWarner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n
\tIntelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.<\/p>\n
\tA comet’s tail always points away from the sun<\/p>\n
\tThe Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent<\/p>\n
\tCaffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.<\/p>\n
\tThe military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.<\/p>\n
\tIf 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.<\/p>\n
\tWhen a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight<\/p>\n
\tIn ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed <\/p>\n
\tStrawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside<\/p>\n
\tAvocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams<\/p>\n
\tThe moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year<\/p>\n
\tThe Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust<\/p>\n
\tDue to earth’s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters<\/p>\n
\tMickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy<\/p>\n
\tSoldiers 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<\/p>\n
\tEverything weighs one percent less at the equator<\/p>\n
\tFor every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off<\/p>\n
\tThe letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.<\/p>\n
\tAnd last but not least:<\/p>\n
\tIn 2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on August 21, 2012, 9:04 am<\/p>\n \tIf you die from smoking you HAVE quit! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on August 21, 2012, 3:03 pm<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n\tAny 31-day month that begins on a Friday will have five Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The last two times this happened was October 2010 and July 2011; the next time (after July 2011) will be March 2013. Also, December 2012 will only have four Fridays, not five.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Stickman on August 21, 2012, 4:30 pm<\/p>\n Some of these have been around before, but ointeresting none the less. And for those of us who are getting a little bit on in years, we tend to forget them \ud83d\ude06 If you are right handed, you will tend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}