1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop
producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at
the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds
hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing
their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately
six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than
plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called
phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay
in the gut. It will pass through the system
and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is
rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that
walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right
foot, left foot.
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the
sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
some interesting facts
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years .
A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
Slugs have four noses
Sharks can live up to 100 years
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is
actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year
presidency
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in
it to begin with.
The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
Octopus have three hearts
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The
survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
Bone is five times stronger than steel
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