● 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 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.