辽宁省林业调查规划院:General Knowledge

General Knowledge (小常识)

If you areright handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.

If you are lefthanded, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

To make half akilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.

Touristsvisiting Icelandshould know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

People innudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Albert Einsteinwas offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Astronautscan't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in theirstomachs.

Ancient Roman,Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

The Mona Lisahas no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

Because of thespeed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipseto last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

Google isactually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

It takes glassone million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can berecycled an infinite amount of times!

Gold is theonly metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands ofyears.

Your tongue isthe only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

If you stopgetting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated,its thirst  Mechanism shuts off.

Each year2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

Zero is theonly number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Kites were usedin the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

Drinking waterafter eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Peanut oil isused for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heatedabove 450*C.

The roar thatwe hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but ratherthe sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out ofevery 10 living things live in the ocean.

The bananacannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

Airports athigher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

The tooth isthe only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

WarnerCommunications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligentpeople have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tailalways points away from the sun.

The Swine Fluvaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intendedto prevent.

Caffeineincreases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is foundin some medicines.

The militarysalute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armorraised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get intothe bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even inthe middle of the day.

When a persondies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.

In ancienttimes strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

Strawberriesare the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

Avocados havethe highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

The moon movesabout two inches away from the Earth each year.

The Earth gets100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Due to earth'sgravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Mickey Mouse isknown as "Topolino" in Italy.

Soldiers do notmarch in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibrationwhich could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.

Everythingweighs one percent less at the equator.

For every extrakilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed atlift-off.

The letter Jdoes not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

And last butnot least:

In 2011, Julyhas 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every823 years! This is called 'money bags'.