FASCINATING FACTS

A fact is defined as something that actually exists, or something having objective reality that can be verified according to an established standard of evaluation.
Here are few facts which are interesting as well as informative,
Ø If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
Ø If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Ø Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Ø Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
Ø The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
Ø The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
Ø Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
Ø 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.
Ø Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Ø The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
Ø The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
Ø The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
Ø Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Ø Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
Ø The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Ø When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
Ø When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Ø The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
Ø Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
Ø It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
Ø The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
Ø There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Ø The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Ø Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Ø It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Ø The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Ø 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.
Ø The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Ø Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Ø The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Ø Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

by

HEMA.S.

2006211,

III-Year CSE.