I got this mail as a forward….thought was quite useful and wanted to share with my ilander friends.
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.
ha!! few of them were indeed quite useful. 12-grapes explode, try boiled eggs. I did and my neighbors could hear it. It was quite a bomb blast with the egg yolk splashed inside the oven as if painted with a paste of the yolk.
Sanjukta…very nice and useful post…thanks for share us…all the best
Thanks for sharing
Interesting. The female of the species is deadly, I always thought the cats could never be regimented. Camesl and Giraffes are ungainly so their right right walk is understandable.
some of the facts are interesting - the trivia remain doubtful. As for female of the human variety - i think they bite the male when provoked :-))))
Quite interesting.
Some interesting trivia. As for no. 3, I guess I fall into the 3% cos I never think of my own name. As for no. 5, with a 20 degree wide field of vision, it is absolutely amazing that most people are still so myopic in the views
all male are vegetarian , dont know about female , but female mosq. bites and other females