Post: *Humans Interesting Facts*
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08-26-2010, 07:11 AM
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Alekz
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*Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from 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. Indeed convenient!
*Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
*Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
*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.
*Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
*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.
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*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.
*No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
*Blueberry juice boosts memory
*When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
*The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
*Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
*Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About
100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
*The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only. (Please don't send me corrections to add the penis; the penis is not a muscle).
*We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams
*The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV
*Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss
*Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen and then later retrieved by a dog
*Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches
*Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers. They also enjoy it more.
*The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.
*A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day
*No president of the United States was an only child for his parents
*Pumice is the only rock that floats in water
*The African cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates and then die.
*The vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century
*Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest.
*The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Hemp doesn't contain THC and won't make you high.
*In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles
*80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
*250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
*The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. [/SIZE][/COLOR]
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Can you tell what do you see in those drawings? Can you tell how many faces are there? How about cups, wind mills, cats, dogs, ....
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Innocent children would see dolphins. Us would see a couple in a romantic embrace.
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Do you see diamonds or rectangles?
People in Bar or a face?
[/COLOR]Circles out or in?
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For the below picture follow the instructions:
1. Concentrate on the illusion you see in the middle of the illusion of the picture(the three white dots are) for about 35-40 seconds
2. Then take a look at any white wall and start blinking your eyes
3. A picture now is starting to appear on the wall, continue blinking
4. What do you see? THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA! WOW I SAW OBAMA ON THE WALL.. PS: Dont tell this to anyone because they will call you crazy!
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For the below picture follow the instructions:
1. Concentrate on the illusion you see in the middle of the illusion of the picture(the three white dots are) for about 35-40 seconds
2. Then take a look at any white wall and start blinking your eyes
3. A picture now is starting to appear on the wall, continue blinking
4. What do you see? THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA! WOW I SAW OBAMA ON THE WALL.. PS: Dont tell this to anyone because they will call you crazy!
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08-26-2010, 07:21 AM
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08-28-2010, 02:30 PM
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