Thursday, February 03, 2005

JUST KNOW THIS!!!

JUST KNOW THIS!!!

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 SaharaDesertin 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 Swedenbuilt 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
fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is
actually the
sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.


--
Azhar A,
22/25,Moopen Street,
Tattamangalam Post,
Palakkad

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