FACTS OF LIFE

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stopproducing tears. Try it
next time you chop onions.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow atthe same time. Indeed
convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their ownname.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wideangle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it soundshollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showingtheir own photos on
each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximatelysix to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly thanplants watered with
cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria inyour 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 andears never stop
growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stayin 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 Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right
foot, left foot, left foot, rather than rightfoot, left foot .

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

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