Just Know These Facts

 

 

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

rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather

than right foot,left

foot...

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a

fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles

is actually the sound of

nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

22. 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=20 like

it's smiling.

23. The color blue can have a calming affect on

people.

24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up

to 11 tranquilizing

chemicals to calm the body Leonardo da Vinci could

write with the one hand

and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know

why his pictures were

exquisite!!

25. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See

no evil), Mikazaru(Hear

no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

26. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself

without turning it's head

are the rabbit and parrot.

27. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled

without repeating a letter

is uncopyrightable.

28. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't

appear until the child

reaches 2-6 years of age

29. The names of the continents all end with the

same letter with which they

start.

30. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but

through a field around the

wire.

31. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of

them just didn't like to

be seen wearing them in public.

32. No word in the English language rhymes with

month, orange, silver, and

purple.

33. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted

before.