Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Amazing True Facts to Know

1. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
2. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
3. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
4. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
5. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

6. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
7. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
8. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
9. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

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

11. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
12. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
13. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
14. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

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

16. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
17. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
18. 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.
19. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. (SO GALS TRY IT NEXT TIME WHILE CHOPPING onions.)
20. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

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