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Articles: Time Pass | Amazing Facts
- Mr. Ram Tangirala
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Amazing Facts:
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· Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
· Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
· 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 ounds 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 like its 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.
· 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 the rabbit and parrot.
· The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
· Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
· It is impossible to lick your elbow.
· 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 they can be eaten.
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