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    *"**Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest, it's
    about those who came and never left  your side."*

                            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 61 percent.
                            Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines
                            because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated
                            above 450 degrees F.

                            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.

                            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.
                            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 has 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 people 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.
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