Fascinating trivia

[LONDONER]

Some Interesting Facts

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 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 ten 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.

[Rainbowmum]

Great tidbits thank you.

[MisterTinkles]

I thought bronze did not rust either? Or was that nickle?

Oh well, more stuff to store in my itty bitty brain.

[LONDONER]

I thought bronze did not rust either? Or was that nickle

I think that "rust" was the wrong word to use. Maybe "corode" would have been more appropriate. You only have to think of some of those ancient Greek bronze statues that have been dregged from the sea to see how bronze can corode.