General Knowledge (小常识) 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. Tourists
visiting 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 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. 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! 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. 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*C. 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 The tooth is
the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself. 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. 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 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. 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'. |
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