Posted on 02/14/2023 5:32:54 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.
when a person dies hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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. 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 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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Silver doesn’t rust.
True, but it does oxidize, and only on the surface. It is called “tarnish”, and it’s why your great grandparents had to polish the silverware.
Not at all true. The tongue is not a single muscle. It contains a number of muscles, all attached at both ends.
I will add that English is the only language that has the letter double u-”W”...it’s double “V” in other languages
Clever;)
Many of these are true enough to use as facts in today’s society of mendacity.
FYI, goats (Caprine) and horses (equine) have no gall bladder, yet the Chinese acupuncture charts show a Gall Bladder Meridian for each.
The meaning of "decompose" isn't restricted to biological processes. Rocks can indeed decompose via chemical and crystallographic changes, most of which make them more susceptible to mechanical erosion.
Glass is a liquid, not really a solid, though at ordinary temperatures its viscosity is so high that it might as well be solid. Most rocks are made up of crystalline minerals, but there are some natural glasses such as obsidian. Natural glasses tend to crystallize, or devitrify, over enough time, so artificial glass should do the same.
Oh fun!
>> You would expect a taller mountain to be possible on a planet with weaker gravity. Gravity tends to pull massive objects like planets into a spherical shape. <<
I’m thinking you’d expect PROPORTIONALLY taller mountains on planets with weaker gravity. But when the mountain pushes down, it must displace the rest of the crust up, so the greater gravity down by also having to create more force to push displace stuff upwards. But the larger the mountain is IN PROPORTION to the planet, the greater its warping of the elliptical shape of the planet is.
I meant to comment on this, also:
>>The brain also cannot heal itself (although it can copy healthy parts to at least partially take over for the function of damaged parts); neurons do not regenerate. <<
Yeah, I think we’re simply disagreeing on “healing.” I agree about neurons not being able to be REPLACED by its descendent neurons, but on the micro level, there is significant HEALING of that individual neuron that can take place. On the macro level, I would describe such compensation as a form of healing.
The term “skip” as in to skip town, or skip out on bail or skip out on a bill comes from Corrections Department shorthand. Missing prisoners were marked as SKP, escapee.
But with the earth gaining 100 tons/year due to space dust, wouldn’t the increase in mass attraction cancel out the moon’s ‘distancing’?
Good post LM Boyd site has many of them too
Clever but highly doubtful. That meaning of “skip” is probably about as old as the word itself.
There is no “zeroth” minute or second, to be exact.
The Romans did not have scientific notation, so no recording medium was large enough for that to be recorded.
Oh yes, there is. Zero hours, Zulu, comes to mind. January 1, 1970 is zero in Linux Land. I can most assuredly write zero into any time-keeping register...
Gold does dissolve in water, the universal solvent.
Recent developments in technology have been able to detect the very small amounts of gold in water samples. That is one of the technologies being used to home in on the gold treasure deposited on Oak Island.
It's being saved for the new elements waiting to be discovered on other planets and in interstellar space.
Only ferrous based materials rust because we call the oxidized product rust. Many metals oxidize or react chemically to environmental influences but don't "rust".
“In the beginning . . .”
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