Monday, February 26, 2007

FACTS

1. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

2. Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

3. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.

4. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

5. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

6. 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.

7. For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.

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