Interesting Facts

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.

22. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

23. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

24. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

25. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

26. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

27. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

28. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

29. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

30. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

31. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

32. Butterflies taste with their feet.

33. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

34. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

35. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

36. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

37. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

38. Starfish have no brains

39. Polar bears are left-handed.

40. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.