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Mon 4 Jul, 2005 06:57 am
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 rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,leftfoot
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Re: trivial trivia
violet24 wrote:
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
This is false. They tried this in Australia in 1999
Goodness, violet! - You could spread that around a little. Or do you know THATmuch more trivia?!
A dryer sheet actually makes a good insect repellant.
I wish I knew all those off the top of my head, but i had received those in an email.... copy and paste...
Ah, you didn't check your sources
my humblest apologies.
for future reference, i will check all my sources out.
Quote:15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
How do they get the ink to stay on in the slobber?
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
well duhhh.
That reminds me. Someone taught me a great cooking trick. You know how difficult it is to peel garlic?
Just put the cloves in the microwave, turn on high for 15 seconds and...voila: the garlic skin comes off in one piece.
Or, you can just smash it with the flat side of a cleaver.
Intrepid wrote:Quote:15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
How do they get the ink to stay on in the slobber?
maybe they scan the tongue, but the problem is, how far can u stick it out?
P.S. Violet, I see you're a 'newbie'. So, WELCOME, if I haven't said so already!
Where are my manners. I, also, have not welcomed Violet. Sorry for the oversight, and welcome.
The creature having the most eyes is the Chiton.It is a mollusc and ones have been found with 11,000 seperate mobile eyes.
Maybe they counted the mouth as one of the 11,000 eyes:
another one:
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
Can u imagine an elephant jumping? Funny!!!
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