* 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.
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* To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
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* Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
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* Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
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* People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport ..
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* Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
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* Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
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* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows as it was the fashion to shave them off during the Renaissance era!
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
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* Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years .
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* Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end ..
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* If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
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* Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
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* Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
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* Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
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* 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.
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* Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
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* Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450
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* 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.
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* Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
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* 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
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* The University of Alaska spans four time zones
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* The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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* In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
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* Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
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* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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* 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
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* Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
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* The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
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* 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.
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* When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
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* In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
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* Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
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* Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
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* 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
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* Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
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* Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
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* 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
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* Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
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* For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
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* The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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