Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Did you know

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. (OK. Get a snack and try it.)


To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers


Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.


Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.


Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport. (I wonder why. . .)

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash. (Oh, yuck)

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

Because 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.

The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.

There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne (No wonder the top blows!)

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale

3 comments:

CWMartin said...

Gives new meaning to the term, "potty mouth", eh?

Bob G. said...

Bet if those astronauts can't BELCH, they can still....
(well, you know)

There was a lot on that list I did NOT know.
Very interesting.

Stay safe down there.

Anonymous said...

My friend sent me your list. May I make one correction? Google is a misspelling of Googol, which is the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes. And, fyi, Googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol zeroes. And the biggest number that has a name is googolplexian, which is 1 followed by a googolplex zeroes!