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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:
This is called 'Money Bags.' So send this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5 days.
Based on Chinese FengShui, the one who does not pass this on will have money
troubles for the rest of the year.
Superstitious or not, I passed this along because it is interesting information...
Love Ya, ~Barbara
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:
This is called 'Money Bags.' So send this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5 days.
Based on Chinese FengShui, the one who does not pass this on will have money
troubles for the rest of the year.
Superstitious or not, I passed this along because it is interesting information...
Love Ya, ~Barbara
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This week's highlights include the series premeire of "Lanterns"; new seasons of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "Average Joe", "Love Is Blind UK", and "Conana O'Brien Must Go", the final season of "Outer Banks"; a new cocktail-themed reality competition series; documentaries about Novak Djokovic and the UConn Huskies; "The Run for A Million" horse competition (which might be of...
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I recently heard a great 2007 song the other day, "Falling Slowly" because it popped up in my newsfeed, accompanied by the sad news that the male singer, Glen Hansard, just died in a motorcycle accident. I learned that the song won an award and was featured in an indie movie called Once. I just watched it, and it's really good. They made it in 3 weeks on a $100,000 budget. It's streaming on...
My head is feeling kind of heavy.....not!
Thanks Barb......
Oh and the shaking hands one - that's why there is that belief about not trusting left handed people, because when one shakes hands it is generally with the right hand because it used to be to show you were unarmed since most people are right handed and would use the right hand to hold their weapon but a left handed person wouldn't so they could shake your hand and still stab you with their sword I suppose... I heard something the other day about that also being a reason for the direction stairs would wind in a castle counter-clockwise, so someone defending the castle could reach around a corner and defend from attack while someone coming up the stairs wouldn't be able to bend their arm the other way to attack. I wish I could remember what it was I was watching that mentioned that now...