Do You Know Part 2

1) In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

2) Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

3) Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

4) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

5) A comet's tail always points away from the sun

6) The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent

7) Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

8) The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

9) 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.

10) When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight

11) Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach.

12) In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed

13) Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside

14) Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams

15) It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines

16) The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

17) The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust

18) Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters

19) Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left

20) Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy

21) 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

22) The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged

23) Everything weighs one percent less at the equator

24) For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off

25) The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.