Mark's Extensive and Exhaustively Researched Gallery of Completely, Totally, and Utterly Useless Facts about Matter Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper The active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater The average smell weighs 760 nanograms There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the micro-organisms on your body When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up of oxygen 9 Facts |