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21 Interesting Facts you would like to Know


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1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

 

 

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

 

 

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

 

 

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

 

 

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

 

 

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

 

 

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

 

 

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

 

 

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

 

 

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

 

 

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

 

 

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

 

 

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

 

 

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 

 

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

 

 

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

 

 

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

 

 

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

 

 

19. 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 .

 

 

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

 

 

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting

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22. You cannot piss and shit at the exact same time. Try it!

 

But you can puke and shit at the same time (gotta love college)

 

23. Order an AK pistol from JoeKen. You will never receive it.

 

I'm surprised no one has burned down their shop yet. We were a few tables down from them at a gunshow awhile back and I was afraid we'd become 'innocent bystanders' :lolol:

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1. I was actually cutting onions today, I wish I'd seen this first.

18. They actually do this in parts of Romania as well.

 

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24. Pirate flags were originally red. The French version for "pretty red" flag was "jolie rouge" which like many French terms and phrases was Anglicized, into Jolly Roger. :chris:

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22. You cannot piss and shit at the exact same time. Try it!

 

But you can puke and shit at the same time (gotta love college)

 

23. Order an AK pistol from JoeKen. You will never receive it.

 

I'm surprised no one has burned down their shop yet. We were a few tables down from them at a gunshow awhile back and I was afraid we'd become 'innocent bystanders' :lolol:

 

I even think you can get a Grant if you can shit and puke at the same time!

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