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. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
5. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
6. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
7. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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. 315 entries in the Webster's dictionary were misspelled.
14. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
15. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
16. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
17. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
18. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already digested by a bee.
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. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
22. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
23. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
24. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
25. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
26. By raisin your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
27. China has more English speakers than the United States.
28. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
29. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
30. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
31. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
32. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
33. The words 'racecar', 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
34. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
35. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
36. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
37. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
38. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
39. 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.
40. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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