Tanoro
August 13th, 2005, 01:00 PM
*Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
*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.
* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
* 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.
*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
* Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
* The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
* No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
* Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
* The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
* The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
* Pearls melt in vinegar.
* The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
* Turtles can breathe through their butts.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
* All polar bears are left-handed.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
*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.
* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
* 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.
*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
* Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
* The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
* No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
* Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
* The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
* The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
* Pearls melt in vinegar.
* The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
* Turtles can breathe through their butts.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
* All polar bears are left-handed.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.