This crap can raise your Horizon..
Some simple facts.....(please don't read this stuff unless you are a nerd)
- An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
- In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
- Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
- Only food that does not spoil: honey.
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
- Hot water is heavier than cold.
- Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
- Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
- Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.
- Rain contains vitamin B12.
- The opposite of a "vacuum" is a "plenum."
- Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
- The nearest galaxy to our own is Andromeda.which is predicted to collide with our milky way galaxy in the mere future..hehe then what about us folks? ;)
- Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
- The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
- Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
- The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
- The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
- U like me ;) hahaha...
