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    Lightbulb Interesting Facts

    - Glass takes 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.

    - 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 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. (duh!!!! WE knew THAT!!!!)

    - The University of Alaska spans four time zones. (the area it serves…not the actual campus??)

    - 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.

    - 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 point 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 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.

    - 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.
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    Re: Interesting Facts

    Interesting facts indeed! I have already read a few facts though.

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    Re: Interesting Facts

    Hi Guys im a newbee here

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    I don't know

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    Re: Interesting Facts

    That was a lot of interesting facts to handle, even I forgot what fact I was about to share ;) Thanks for those info.

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    I don't know

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    Re: Interesting Facts

    ok why not dude
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    Re: Interesting Facts

    Thanks for sharing, kept me on my toes.

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    Re: Interesting Facts

    Quite interesting facts. I knew some them before but others no. Thanks for sharing.

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    Re: Interesting Facts

    Try this really interesting facts! Some are funny and really interesting.

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    Really nice facts dudes.

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    someone say salsa??

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    This is quite useful facts

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    ok i agree with you

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