Amazing Facts

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. 10. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. 11. Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate." 12. Dalmatians are born without spots. 13. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 14. 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] 15. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left 16. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids 17. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee 18. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks 19. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones 20. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die 21. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart 22. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate 23. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red 24. When Hippos are upset, their sweat turns red 25. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor 26. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney 27. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros 28. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan 29. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it 30. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

31. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower 32. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting 33. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death 34. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body 35. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets 36. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game 37. 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 38. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die 39. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 40. 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling.) 41. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." 42. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its 43. head are the rabbit and the parrot 44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 45. The average person laughs 13 times a day 46. 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) 47. Women blink nearly twice as much as men 48. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog 49. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump 50. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound 51. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two 52. thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death 53. 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. 54. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!! 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. 22. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and ake it look=20 like it's smiling. 23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people. 24. 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 imultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!! 25. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil). 26. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot. 27. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 28. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age 29. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 30. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire. 31. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public. 32. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.