Shared By Kim Smith

Here are some interesting bits of trivia that I received a couple of hours ago from my friend, Kim Smith.  All of them are very interesting, and many of them will really get you to thinking about how and why we look at life the way that we do...

 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.

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.

  

  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.

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

  

  When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.

  

  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.

  

  For every real Christmas  tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its  place.

  

  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 450 F

  

  The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells

  

  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

  

  Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces

  

  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.

  

  Do you know the names of  the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no

evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

  

  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

  

  Trivia in Roman  mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the  goddess of sorcery and witchcraft.  She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach. 

  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

  

  It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines

  

  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

  

  Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the  left

  

  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

  

  The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged

  

  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.

Shalom/Salaam/Dohiyi/La Pas/Mir/Peace

 Kim      

"Be led by your dreams, not pushed by your problems"