Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Some interesting facts about our daily life

1. 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.

2. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

3. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink.
If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

4. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at
something
pleasing.

5. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

6. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

7. The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and'
(in civil proceedings] or 'against' (in criminal proceedings].

8. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the
buttons on the left.


9. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink.
All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

10. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

11. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

12. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

13. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film
about it.


14. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

15. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.