It's a Fact - Debbie Guzzi's Blog

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

Caffeine increases the power of  aspirin and other painkillers, that

is why it isfound 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.

How MANY of the above facts did you know?