Mar 12, 2009

Amazing Facts


1. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
2.Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
3.The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
4. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
5.The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
6. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
7. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
8.It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
9.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
10.Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
11.Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.
12.The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
13.Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
14. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
15.Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
16.The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17.The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
18.We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
19.It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
20.Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
21.A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant. No one knows why.
22.One cannot catch cold at the North Pole in winter. Neither can one contract the flu, nor most of the ailments transmitted viruses and germs. The winter temperature is so low in this part of the world that none of the standard disease causing Micro-organisms can survive.
23.A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed not with water but with the whites of 10,000 eggs The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today.
24.There is a city called Rome in every continent.
25.Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
26.Inside the earth it gets 3 degrees hotter every 100m further down.
27.A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.
28.A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
29.Horses can’t vomit.
30.In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog.
31.
The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.
32.Japan is made up of over 6000 islands.
33.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
34.There are about 6000 languages in the world.

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