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Offline BeeMaster2

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JUST PLAIN NEAT INFORMATION.....
« on: September 28, 2016, 12:43:13 pm »
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. Drinking a glass of water before you eat may help digestion and curb appetite.
 
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.
 
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
 
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
 
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, which was written in 1935!
 
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 and cashews 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.
 
I passed this along because it is interesting information.
 
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Re: JUST PLAIN NEAT INFORMATION.....
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 06:25:37 pm »
>If you stop getting thirsty , you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

As someone who has many times gone four days with no water I can assure you that is not true.

>In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

So you want to be close and throw it hard...
 
>Warner Communications paid 28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday, which was written in 1935!

When?  I knew it was copyrighted and someone had been enforcing it...

>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.

I did not know that.
 
>Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

I'm not sure I follow that... but then 15,000 meters up is a long way and the energy to move lava or rock that far would have to come from somewhere...

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Re: JUST PLAIN NEAT INFORMATION.....
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2016, 06:43:09 pm »
""Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.""
Maybe for women, but not for men.   :tongue:  :cool:

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

How about hair and nails?

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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2016, 06:56:12 pm »
So you want to be close and throw it hard.
Ha Ha Ha!!!

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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2016, 12:20:18 pm »
>How about hair and nails?

I should have caught that.  Yes, they don't heal.
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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2016, 12:27:30 pm »
Hair and nails are constantly being replaced. Teeth grow to a certain size and then they stay that way, in humans any way.
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Re: JUST PLAIN NEAT INFORMATION.....
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2016, 08:53:01 pm »
G'day Michael,
                         If you were not drinking water what did you partake of ?
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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2016, 10:29:15 pm »
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.  Had to "fact check" this one.

One of the advantages of having friends from all over the world is having friends from all the world. One of the disadvantages of having friends from all over the world is that they are more than happy to inform you when you?re wrong about something. (Well, actually I think that is a good thing. Especially when they do it in such a kind way and is someone that you have not heard from for a while.)

But apparently Alaska is no longer on four different time zones. That changed in 1983 with the entire state now on Alaska Time. Well, almost the entire state. Some of the Aleutian Islands extend into the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone, but those islands in that time zone are mostly uninhabited. That fact is something that most people do not consider.  So now the entire state of Alaska consists of only two time zones, the Alaska time zone and the Hawaiian-Aleutian time zone and has been that way for the most part since 10/30/1983.

The University of Alaska has 3 campuses (not including online), one in Anchorage, one in Fairbanks, and one in Juneau. So if you are referring to the physical locations of the schools, the U of A system spans only 1 time zone.
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2016, 03:05:15 pm »

"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."

Having been at the bottom of a 30' well, I can assure you this is not true.  Just a spot of blue sky overhead.
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2016, 08:03:03 pm »
> If you were not drinking water what did you partake of ?

Absolutely nothing.  It's a sundance.  After a day you're not really hungry, but you never get over being thirsty.
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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2016, 02:50:56 pm »
Teeth CAN self-heal - although usually the rate of decay exceeds the rate of repair.  BUT - if you can keep the cavity clean, then the tooth WILL repair, albeit very, very slowly.

Unfortunately this repair will not extend to replacement of the enamel itself, and so the repaired area of the tooth will always be softer than the surrounding enamel, and thus more vulnerable to decay.
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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2016, 10:41:32 am »
Teeth CAN self-heal - although usually the rate of decay exceeds the rate of repair.  BUT - if you can keep the cavity clean, then the tooth WILL repair, albeit very, very slowly.

Unfortunately this repair will not extend to replacement of the enamel itself, and so the repaired area of the tooth will always be softer than the surrounding enamel, and thus more vulnerable to decay.
LJ
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