DID YOU KNOW

Did you  know?    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'.   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. 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       Airports at higher  altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air  density       Fish and Chip selling  officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it  produces       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.       Do you know the names of  the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no  evil)   and Mazaru(Speak no  evil).       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  points 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       Trivia in Roman  mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the  goddess of   sorcery and witchcraft.  She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs  who told of her approach.         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       It cost the soft drink  industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending  machines       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       Men's shirts have the  buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the  left       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       The painting that won  second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design  was hanging upside down when it was judged       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.         And last but  not least :   In 2011,  July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens  once every 823 years!  This is called 'money bags'.  So send  this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5 days.  Based on Chinese  Feng Shui, the one who does not pass this on will have money troubles  for the rest of the year.