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Facts to Remember

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Sumit Jain

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4760 Points Joined January 2009

21 Facts to Know

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.

Replies (8)

tanuja...........

pcc student

571 Points Joined March 2009

good fact

sumit

Article

276 Points Joined March 2009

good facts

good for general knowledge

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hjkl

31 Points Joined July 2008

well, i doubt the nitrogen gas thing that you mentioned about cracking of knuckles....how do we generate so much nitrogen in our knuckles, i wonder!!

ayushi

student

65 Points Joined February 2009

hey my father has been 2 that hotel in sweden!(pt.18)its name is jukkasjarvi.its really beautiful! everything is made up of ice including the walls,glasses,even beds ,ofcourse there are reindeer skin blankets on them!!

babi17

web developer

22 Points Joined April 2009

great facts......

Sumit Jain

CA

4760 Points Joined January 2009

thanx for ur valuable comments

CMA KNVV Sri Vidya - Sri Kanth

C.A.Final (New) ICWAI FINAL (New)

11269 Points Joined November 2008

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thanks for sharing

ashok

clerk

67 Points Joined March 2009

gr8 yaar

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