Saturday, May 25, 2013
Facts which are very interesting:
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1. If you are right
handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left
handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting
thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its
thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ
free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz
motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the
first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the
eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person
who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers
levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds
laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we
hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the
sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are
born without spots.
12. Bats always turn
left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the
name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil
proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have
the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the
only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower
eyelids.
16. The reason honey
is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot
crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has
a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you
sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is
smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave”
is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other:
adhere and separate.
22. When you blush,
the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are
upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley
Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that
roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually
the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters
is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of
Japan.
28. It cost 7 million
dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of
the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792
steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear
when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles
bursting.
32. Human hair and
fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20
seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things
on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer
players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of
the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen
directly from the air.
37. Every day 200
million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch
advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms
frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like itis smiling).
39. Colgate faced big
obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates
into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals
that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the
parrot.
41. Intelligent people
have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person
laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the
names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no
evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds
bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos
cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a
cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights
protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse
in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken
fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the
park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in
battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the
person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to
squirt blood 30 feet!!
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