Information you cannot do without!


        
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 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 (so where did they come  from??)

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.  

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 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. (note to  self..move to 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.

And last but not  least:

In 2012, December had 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays,  and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens
once every 823 years!

This is  called 'money bags'. So send this on to 5 and money will  arrive in 5 days. 
  
Based on Chinese Feng Shui, the one who  does not pass this on will have money
troubles for the rest of the  year.