Amazing Facts

Amazing Facts


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Amazing Facts



Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions



Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient



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 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