Interesting Facts

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• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
• The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
• 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.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
• The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
• The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
• Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
• It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• 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.
• Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
• Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.