· 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. For 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
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