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If You Do Not Know, It will Be Nice To Know |
- Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
- Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
- Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
- Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
- The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
- To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
- Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
- Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
- It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
- Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
- Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
- At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
- There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
- 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...
- Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
- 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.
- The color blue can have a calming affect on people.
- 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.
- Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are rabbit and parrot.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
- All U.S.Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before.
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