Trivia ~ Possibly Unknown

 

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’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Your Tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at one end only.

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 Sang was 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%. Drinking a glass of water before you eat, may help digestion and curb appetite.

Peanut Oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450 degrees.

The roar that we hear when we place a sea shell to our ear, is not the ocean ~ but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every ten 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.

Communications paid $28 million dollars for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday which was written in 1935,

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 deaths & illness than the disease it was tended to prevent.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get to the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up: you can sees stars in the middle of a day.

When a person dies, ‘hearing’ is the last sense to go. The first sense is sight.

In ancient times, strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

The moon moves about 2 inches away from Earth each year.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Due to the Earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.

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 1% less at the equator.

The letter J does not a appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements. 

The foregoing I graciously thank Tom who shares with us all this neat information.

Comments welcome: compiled by MBK October 7, 2020.