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50 Interesting And Informative Facts by AleXis0r(m): 7:19pm On Apr 01, 2015
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 Your tongue is germ
free only if it is pink. If it
is white there is a thin
film of bacteria on it.
5 The Mercedes-Benz
motto is 'Das Beste oder
Nichts'
meaning 'the best or
nothing'.
6 The Titanic was the
first ship to use the SOS
signal.
7 The pupil of the eye
expands as much as 45
percent
when a person looks at
something pleasing.
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 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)
14 Men's shirts have the
buttons on the right, but
women's shirts have the
buttons on the left
15 The owl is the only
bird to drop its upper
eyelid
to wink. All other birds
raise their lower eyelids
16 The reason honey is
so easy to digest is that
it's
already been digested
by a bee
17 Roosters cannot crow
if they cannot extend
their
necks
18 The color blue has a
calming effect. It causes
the
brain to release calming
hormones
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 The verb "cleave" is
the only English word
with two
synonyms which are
antonyms of each other:
adhere and
separate
22 When you blush, the
lining of your stomach
also
turns red
23 When hippos are
upset, their sweat turns
red
24 The first Harley
Davidson motorcycle
was built in
1903, and used a tomato
can for a carburetor
25 The lion that roars in
the MGM logo is named
Volney
26 Google is actually the
common name for a
number
with a million zeros
27 Switching letters is
called spoonerism. For
example, saying jag of
Flapan, instead of flag of
Japan
28 It cost 7 million
dollars to build the
Titanic and
200 million to make a
film about it
29 The attachment of
the human skin to
muscles is what
causes dimples
30 There are 1,792 steps
to the top of the Eiffel
Tower
31 The sound you hear
when you crack your
knuckles is
actually the sound of
nitrogen gas bubbles
bursting
32 Human hair and
fingernails continue to
grow after
death
33 It takes about 20
seconds for a red blood
cell to
circle the whole body
34 The plastic things on
the end of shoelaces are
called aglets
35 Most soccer players
run 7 miles in a game
36 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
37 Every day 200 million
couples make love,
400,000
babies are born, and
140,000 people die
38 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).
39 Colgate faced big
obstacle marketing
toothpaste in
Spanish speaking
countries. Colgate
translates into
the command "go hang
yourself."
40 The only 2 animals
that can see behind
itself
without turning its head
are the rabbit and the
parrot
41 Intelligent people
have more zinc and
copper in
their hair
42 The average person
laughs 13 times a day
43 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)
44 Women blink nearly
twice as much as men
45 German Shepherds
bite humans more than
any other
breed of dog
46 Large kangaroos
cover more than 30 feet
with each
jump
47 Whip makes a
cracking sound because
its tip moves
faster than the speed of
sound
48 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
49 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.
50 The human heart
creates enough pressure
while
pumping to squirt blood
30 feet!!
Re: 50 Interesting And Informative Facts by mrwiddy(m): 9:24pm On Apr 01, 2015
no 45 z very funny and educative
1st to comment #ifeelblessed
Re: 50 Interesting And Informative Facts by pammusphy(m): 9:42pm On Apr 01, 2015
Educative
Re: 50 Interesting And Informative Facts by SisiNini(f): 10:22pm On Apr 01, 2015
Educating...!!!

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