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saliva
  • 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, it’s a quart

salt
  • Roman soldiers were once paid in salt coins
  • The word ‘salary’ actually comes from the root word of salt
  • The word ‘salad’ also originated from the word salt. Thats an ironic fact
  • The bible refers to salt 30 times
  • In 1933,the Dalai Lama was burried atop a bed of salt

salute
  • The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty

Samoa
  • In Samoa, it is acceptable for a family who has too many sons, to raise the youngest boy as a daughter. He is known as a fa’afafine and is given a girl’s name and wears feminine clothing… and is even allowed to use the ladies bathroom

Saturn
  • Saturn’s moon Titan has more oil and gas than that on earth. There, it rains methane and ethane, which forms massive lakes

scarecrows
  • Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)

Scientology, Church
  • Scientologists do believe in a Supreme Being, but do not worship one. Scientology believes that only through total spiritual enlightenment can one then truly discover and understand the Supreme Being.
  • The Church of Scientology is the first large organization to be banned from editing Wikipedia
  • Germany is seeking to ban Scientology
  • Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Cartwright (Simpsons) and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology
  • Scientology involves the practice of ‘auditing,’ which is a one-on-one session with a Scientology counselor or ‘auditor.’ It involves an E-meter, that measures changes in electrical resistance through the body and supposedly helps locate areas of concern
  • The Church of Scientology and all of it’s companies do not pay tax because they fall under the categories of religious practices
  • Scientology holds a religious status only in the United States and Australia

scorpions
  • Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They’ll ‘snap’ and sting themself
  • Scorpion venom is also a rarer cause of pancreatitis

Scotland
  • In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted
  • Scotland paid £125,000 for advertisers to come up with the tourist slogan, “Welcome to Scotland”

scrabble
  • Mr Butts originally named Scrabble “Criss Cross Words.”
  • The Malaysian version has the highest number of single letters – 18 As
  • In the Polish version, Z is worth only one point
  • The highest recorded single word score in English is 392 for CAZIQUES, meaning “native chiefs of West Indian aborigines”
  • London hosted the first world championship in 1991
  • The recently released Welsh version has left out the letters X, Q and Z.


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