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jacko
30-Jan-14, 16:43
Id Like to know how they get there answers, specially on the dying person??









Subject: MONEY BAG

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.

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.

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 armour 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 Feng Shui, 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.

RagnarRocks
30-Jan-14, 16:47
I liked the one about looking up a chimney or tower maybe that's what brochs where built for

Mrs Bradey
30-Jan-14, 17:05
interesting, will have money troubles anyway so won't waste time passing it on. maybe crayola will being 5 n all.

linnie612
30-Jan-14, 17:07
I wonder how much bruised fruit there was in Ancient Greece? :D

jacko
30-Jan-14, 18:17
I liked the one about looking up a chimney or tower maybe that's what brochs where built for

think my own self will put that one to the test.

George Brims
30-Jan-14, 19:46
Quibbles from the astronomy department:
The seeing stars from a well one is totally wrong. The atmosphere glows when the sun illuminates it and drowns out the light from the stars. If you're looking with a camera that sees infrared light, it keeps glowing all night!
Your weight at the equator is 1% less than at the poles, varying gradually - you don't suddenly lose weight when your arrive at the equator!
And from my own experience:
The banana one is slightly wrong. It's true for the varieties we eat but not for wild bananas. I've seen seeds for the tiny pink ones for sale alongside orchids, plumeria etc at tropical gift shops.

jax
30-Jan-14, 20:54
Yeah I like it, bananas can't self reproduce eh???

George Brims
30-Jan-14, 23:09
Yeah I like it, bananas can't self reproduce eh???
The commercial ones can't. The fruit is all edible flesh and can't dry up into a viable seed. They're propagated like you do with rhubarb or a lot of garden plants by just splitting up the root and distributing the bits to make new plants. The biggest problem is that means all the plants are genetically identical and so if a disease comes along it could wipe out the whole crop. There are only a small number of varieties.

jax
30-Jan-14, 23:30
The commercial ones can't. The fruit is all edible flesh and can't dry up into a viable seed. They're propagated like you do with rhubarb or a lot of garden plants by just splitting up the root and distributing the bits to make new plants. The biggest problem is that means all the plants are genetically identical and so if a disease comes along it could wipe out the whole crop. There are only a small number of varieties.That's interesting I have noticed wee seed thingys in a banana but not really considered if they were fertile & a viable seed, rhubarb does flower

RagnarRocks
30-Jan-14, 23:45
Cavendish bananas are the commercial variety that need propagating but there are other types you can grow from seed i used to grow them in my greenhouse down south problem is some of them aren't edible. I doubt they'd grow very well up here unless you had a nice heated room for them or heated greenhouse

Big Gaz
31-Jan-14, 01:05
I wonder how much bruised fruit there was in Ancient Greece? :D


Or how many bruised young ladies there were :D

2little2late
01-Feb-14, 19:01
How do we know glass takes a million years to decompose? For a start humans weren't around 1 million years ago therefore glass certainly wasn't.

jacko
03-Feb-14, 18:50
yep i knew it [lol]:lol:[lol]

Big Gaz
03-Feb-14, 20:11
How do we know glass takes a million years to decompose? For a start humans weren't around 1 million years ago therefore glass certainly wasn't.

Glass isn't a man made product, it's been around for a long time, possibly even longer than 1 million years. Obsidian is one of them and there are various colours and hues from clear to solid colour. Just google "volcanic glass" and see lots of pretty shinies :)