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.
False.
The letter J appears in the element JCC.
(commonly known as Jimmy crack corn.)
“The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.”
I know all about bananas and reproduction, learned that in school. But I thought playing with your banana with your hand would make you go blind!
False. Since the 1980s, Alaska has had only two time zones.
I see Sunday Sarcasm is up early this morning;) LOL!!
I had banana trees in my back yard that produced with no human intervention a
Marriages were arranged between fathers and prospective husbands.
Sunday sarcasm is up late.
I am the virus that never sleeps.
:)
Sarcasm ?How about juvenile’ism
I just read your homepage.
I know who you're talking about and I LOVE IT?
Yay you.
Good catch TC ;)
Alaska is quite large longitudinally, and prior to 1983 the entire state did run across 4 time zones; however, the state is now on one main time zone, Alaska Time, with the exception of the Western, mostly uninhabited area of the Aleutian Islands, which follows Hawaii-Aleutian Time.
The University of Alaska has 3 campuses in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau. All of those campuses are on Alaska Time, which is one hour behind Pacific Time.
The adoption of one main time zone causes some anomalies in the western most parts of Alaska. For example, in the far west of the time zone, a clock will legally say that it is noon, but based on solar time it is really 9:42am (during daylight savings it would even be 8:42am).
Source: http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/Time/062912_alaska_time.html
“Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.”
I don’t recall “e”, Pi, or “i” in Roman numerals.
Not sure that's a word, but I am very immature for my age.
This is known.
Are you trying to say Jimmy crack corn ISN'T an element?
****I don’t recall “e”, Pi, or “i” in Roman numerals.****
numerals = numbers
Should have typed 0 and not zero???????
Fascinating!
Pineapples and cashews also have their seeds or seed (cashews) on the outside. The fruit of the cashew is not eaten.
I think they meant integers.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man................................... Errrr? I planted 1 banana plant I now have 5. The plant reproduces itself via the root system.
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