amazing facts

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(cut&pasted from another sweetoo thread.)

Posted: 28 Jan 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: amazing....

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>Here Are Some Amazing Facts
>
>* 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 sounds hollow
>then it is ripe.
>* Canadians can send letters with personalised 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 colours 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 advertisments 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 knee caps. 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
>* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
>never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>* The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees
> both military and civilian. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200
>clocks, drink from 691 water fountains, utilize 284 rest rooms, consume 4
>500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or
>served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons Over 200,000 telephone calls are
>made daily through phones connected by 100,000 miles of telephone cable.
>
>
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