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Factoid #1..

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Managing Real Estate Broker with Fathom Realty PB00068179

 

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.

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

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.

The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.

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.

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 61percent.

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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
REALTOR®, Broker

Love useless and pointless knowledge. Thanks for sharing. Makes me wonder is a person who is ambidextrous swallows their food?

Apr 04, 2011 11:27 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Good morning, James. I'll be sure to bring up some of these at my next party...

Apr 04, 2011 11:29 PM
Don Rogers
Keller Williams Realty Chesterfield - O'Fallon, MO
Realtor, Broker, CDPE, GRI, OnullFallon MO & St Charles County MO homes

Good morning James,

It seems as though our national debt will be google is we continue to spend. 

Apr 04, 2011 11:59 PM
Joshua Zargari
MJ Decorators Workshop LI staging and home decorating - Lynbrook, NY
MJ Decorators Workshop

Good morning James.

That was an eye opening post...I enjoyed reading it...

 

Apr 05, 2011 12:20 AM
Dawn A Fabiszak
Private Label Realty ( Denver metro area, Colorado - Aurora, CO
The Dawn of a New Real Estate Experience!

James ~ I love stuff like this (can you tell....mind bender).  Can you imagine the royalties for writing Old Lang  Syne?

Apr 05, 2011 12:26 AM
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Not so sure I needed all the facts in your post today! One thing for sure, I will never view a volleyball game in the same way ever again. Enjoy the day!

Apr 05, 2011 12:27 AM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Hi morning people the rest of factoid will be posted tomorrow join in for some more trivial facts but interesting

Apr 05, 2011 12:32 AM
Rob Thomas
Prestige Homes of The Tri Cities, Inc. CALL....423-341-6954 - Bristol, TN
Bristol TN-VA & Tri Cities Agent, ABR, GRI, e-Pro

James....these are definitely eye opening! Thanks!
Hope you have a great day!---Rob

Apr 05, 2011 12:48 AM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi James - I am with Wayne.  They make clothes for a reason:)

Apr 05, 2011 12:50 AM
Lydie Ouellet Dickinson
Realty Executives Tri County, Bellingham MA - Bellingham, MA
Realtor

Well, I love a day when I learn more than 1 thing. But the food chewing fact did answer to my "personal" question that I have been wondering for years! Why oh why the left side?

About "Google", that makes sense!

Thank you!

Apr 05, 2011 02:06 AM
Tony Morganti
RE/MAX Crossroads in Cuyahoga Falls and Stow, Ohio - Cuyahoga Falls, OH
CRS, ABR, SRES - Cuyahoga Falls, Stow

Hi James -  a very enjoyable post.  I can certainly understand why volleyball is the sport of choice in nudist colonies.

Apr 05, 2011 02:08 AM
Shar Sitter
Rooms With Style - Minneapolis, MN
Home Staging and Redesign Minneapolis/ St. Paul, M

Glad I didn't live in ancient Rome, China or Germany! Yikes!

Apr 05, 2011 04:12 AM
Torgie Madison
Quicksilver Real Estate Solutions, LLC - Portland, OR
Websites and Contact Management

I think I'm ready for a round of Jeopardy! Awesome info.

Apr 05, 2011 05:41 AM
Clint Mckie
Desert Sun Home, commercial Inspections - Carlsbad, NM
Desert Sun Home, Comm. Inspection 1-575-706-5586

I think i know why they play "vollyball" a lot LOL. When is the test for the final exam? I need to prep myself for the "Factoid exam". Make the questions simple. I'm still stuck on the vollyball picture.

Thanks a lot james. LOL

Clint 

Apr 06, 2011 01:07 AM