!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgleft src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/salt.jpg alt=Salt title=Salt //p pSalt had a huge influence on the development of ancient civilizations because of strongits ability to preserve food/strong which reduced the people's dependence on the seasonal availability of food and allowed them strongto travel long distances/strong./p pIt was a hard-to-obtain highly valued commodity, and some historians believe that Roman soldiers were sometimes strongpaid with salt/strong. The other historians, however, find it a misconception since word emsalary/em derives from the Latin emsalārium/em, meaning money paid to the soldiers strongto buy salt/strong. /p pThe word emsalad/em is also connected to the salt: it comes from the popular ancient Roman dish emherba salata/em, meaning salted vegetables./p pAdvertisement: a href='http://www.cars4causes.net/'/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/nature/salt target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgright src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/poppy.jpg alt=World War II Facts title=World War II Facts //p pstrongWord fascism originates/strong from Italian emfascio/em meaning group, association. In 1919 Benito Mussolini formed the anti-communist political movement called empartito nazionale fascista/em./p pInitially, Nazis called themselves Nasos (the abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Later journalist and writer Konrad Heiden used the strongword nazi as a derogatory term/strong: nazi is derived from Bavarian word that means simple-minded./p pTo confuse Japanese U.S. Marine Corps strongemployed over 300 Navajo-speaking American Indians/strong as radio code talkers for their radio transmissions in the Pacific./p pAdvertisement: a href='http://www.stubhub.com/theater-tickets/'/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/places/world-war-ii-facts target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgleft src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/water.jpg alt=Thirst title=Thirst //p pThirst sensation is the strongearly symptom of dehydration/strong that arises from a lack of fluids and/or increase in the content of certain osmolites such as salt in our body./p pIn most people dehydration symptoms become strongnoticeable after 2% loss/strong of one’s normal water volume and in addition to thirst may include dry skin, abnormally dark urine, tiredness and headache. 10% to 15% loss of water may result in dim vision, muscle cramps, dizziness. Water losses that exceed strong15% are usually fatal/strong./p pIn strongadults over age of 50/strong, the thirst sensation diminishes. In a study elderly people were withheld from drinking water for 24 hours, and when in 24 hours water was made available to them, they still did not recognize that they were thirsty./p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/food-and-drink/thirst target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgright src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/credit-card.jpg alt=Credit Cards title=Credit Cards / /p pThe first credit cards were issued in the United States strongin the 1920s by oil companies /strongand hotel chains, and the purpose of these first cards was not the convenience, but to build customer loyalty. /p pBefore plastic era the credit strongcards (or credit tokens) were made of/strong metal coins or plates, celluloid, cardboard./p pThe first bank credit card named strongCharg-It was invented in 1946/strong by a Brooklyn banker. Unlike today’s cards allowing for purchases with countless third parties all over the world, Charg-It was based on the program between bank customers and local merchants only./p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/gadgets/history-of-credit-cards target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgleft src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/christmas-dinner.jpg alt=Christmas Dinner title=Christmas Dinner //p pMost of the strongturkey feathers/strong produced by the poultry industry are ground up and used as filler for animal feed. strongTurkey dung/strong is used as a fuel source in special electric power plants./p pBrussels sprouts were brought to the US Louisiana by French settlers around 1800. Today about strong80% of Brussels sprouts/strong grown in the US goes to the frozen food market. /p pParsnip is harvested through winter when the ground freezes over as it needs strongfrost to develop its flavor/strong./p pToday, China is the world’s largest producer of potato, while Belarus is the largest consumer of this crop with estimated strong180 kg per person/strong, almost half a kilo a day./p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/food-and-drink/christmas-dinner target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgright src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/spider.jpg alt=Spider title=Spider //p pSpiders are not insects, but strongair-breathing arthropods/strong with two body segments and eight legs. So far, about 40,000 species have been discovered, with the smallest one, dwarf spider, being less than 1 mm (about .05’’) in body length, and the largest one, tarantula, with strongbody lengths up to 90 mm/strong (about 3.5’’). In captivity tarantulas can live up to 25 years, but lifespan of most species does not exceed 2 years./p pSpiders are predators preying mostly on insects and other spiders, but some large species strongeat birds and lizards/strong. Spiders have a very narrow gut that can’t cope with solid matter, and because of that they liquidize their food with enzymes./p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/nature/spiders target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgleft src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/teeth.jpg alt=Teeth title=Teeth //p pTeeth are strongmade not of a bone/strong, but of four tissues of different density and hardness: enamel (the hardest substance of human body), dentin, cementum, and dental pulp. /p pHumans (and mammals in general) are diphyodont, i.e. they develop strongtwo sets of teeth/strong during the lifetime: 20 milk teeth and 32 permanent ones. The presence of a higher-than-normal number of teeth is called hyperdontia./p pSome animals have more than one set of teeth in their lifetime. For instance, strongsharks grow a new set of teeth/strong every two weeks. And walrus tusks are canine teeth that never stop growing throughout life./p pCaries is one of the most common diseases throughout the world. It is caused by acid-producing bacteria that live off the strongremains of foods/strong, especially sugars and starches. To prevent tooth decay saliva helps neutralize the acids that increase the pH of the tooth surface./p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/health-and-beauty/facts-about-teeth target=_blankread more/a/p

!-- google_ad_section_start --pimg class=imgright src=http://facts.trendstoday.info/files/apples.jpg alt=Apples title=Apples //p pWith over strong20,000 named varieties/strong across the globe apple is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. /p pAccording to some researches, the tree originated from Central Asia and most likely was the earliest tree to be cultivated. The thousands of years of selection helped improve its fruits and create many varieties including dessert apples (the ones for eating), apples cultivated specifically for cooking or producing cider. Allegedly, the world's strongbiggest collection of apple cultivars/strong is housed at the National Fruit Collection in England./p pApple holds a very high position in our culture, religion, and mythology with the apple that Eve cajoled Adam to share with her being the most famous one. However, there is a recent theory that strongthat was not an apple Eve gave to Adam/strong, but a green to orange fruit called a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnos_nux-vomica target=newStrychnos nux-vomica/a which seeds contain approximately 1.5% strychnine. Apple seeds, by the way, are mildly strongpoisonous/strong too, containing a small amount of amygdalin which is usually not enough to be dangerous to humans, but it can be harmful for birds. /p pAdvertisement: a href=''/a /p !-- google_ad_section_end --pa href=http://facts.trendstoday.info/food-and-drink/an-apple-a-day target=_blankread more/a/p