Does not matter if your bored, or just like to learn new things, this list is pretty mind boggling. Below are some awesome facts you probably did not know.
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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.
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.
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.
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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, 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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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