{"id":57993,"date":"2024-12-29T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57993"},"modified":"2024-12-29T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:05:44","slug":"some-trivia-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57993","title":{"rendered":"Some Trivia For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!<\/p>\n<p>Gold is the only metal that doesn&#8217;t rust, even if it&#8217;s buried in the ground for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.<\/p>\n<p>If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.<\/p>\n<p>Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.<\/p>\n<p>Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>The song, Auld Lang Sine, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn&#8217;t smoke unless it&#8217;s heated above 450F.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.<\/p>\n<p>Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Alaska spans four time zones.<\/p>\n<p>The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.<\/p>\n<p>A comet&#8217;s tail always points away from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.<\/p>\n<p>Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.<\/p>\n<p>The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.<\/p>\n<p>The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.<\/p>\n<p>The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.<\/p>\n<p>Due to earth&#8217;s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Mouse is known as &#8220;Topolino&#8221; in Italy .<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.<\/p>\n<p>For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.<\/p>\n<p>The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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