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By Bob urban

burban@tnonline.com [1]

@$:Facts you run across whenever you have a lot of spare time to spend while you're on vacation.

Did you know.....

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. If you're underhanded you probably chew on both sides of your mouth.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million individual flowers. No wonder the stuff is so expensive.

Heroin is the band name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'. And here we thought all they dealt with was aspirin.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult. Tipping too little in American restaurants is also considered an insult.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport. That's the naked truth.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. Public office is too taxing, even if you're a genius.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. Wonder if they suffer from heartburn when they're circling the earth?

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash. Thank goodness for Scope.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, is was fashion to shave them off.

Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for