Wednesday Interesting Facts...

Despite bad weather, a different route home and a reroute for a power outage, we made it to Tae Kwon Do. 

Buenas noches!

Here are some interesting facts.... Thanks Tio Carlos!

·      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.

·      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 point 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.

 ·      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.