martes, 22 de marzo de 2011

Very interesting anecdotes (part 1)

For your information!

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'.
 
 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 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.
      
 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!
  
 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  450°F.
      
 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.
  
 

1 comentario:

  1. Jaja! Now we must find the right time to put these sentences in a normal conversation

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