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INTERESTING FACTS... 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 doesnt rust, even if its buried in the ground for thousands of years. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. The University of Alaska spans four time zones. 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. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. Due to earths gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters. 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.
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