Do you know these facts?
- 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.
- If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
- The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
- The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
- The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
- The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep at night.
- Laughing lower levels of stress hormones and strengthen the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
- 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.
- Dalmatians are born without spots.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- 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).
- Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.
- The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
- The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
- Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
- The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
- Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
- When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
- The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
- The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
- Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
- Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
- It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
- The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
- There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
- Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
- It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
- 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.
- Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
- 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 it is smiling).
- Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself.?
- The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The average person laughs 13 times a day.
- 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).
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
- Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- 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.
- 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.
- The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
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