Interesting Facts

• Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person 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.
• Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
• 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 .
• 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.