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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Interesting Facts to know...


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1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions. 


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2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient! 


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3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name. 


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4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. 


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5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle. 


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6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. 


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7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp. 


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8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. 


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9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. 

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10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. 


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11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 


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12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. 
Let's all try this tonight! Hihihi.... 

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13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes. 


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14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 


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15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints. 


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16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system 
and be excreted. 


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17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
 

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18. There is a hotel in 
Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year. 

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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. 


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20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal. 


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21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
 
 

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