posted May 03, 2007 03:09 AM
1. Chewing gum while cutting onions can help a person prevent himself
from crying while chopping onions. Try it next time you chop
onions!!!!!!!!!!2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at
the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their
own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide
angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe , knock it, and if it sounds
hollow then it is ripe.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately
six 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 than
plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your 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 and
ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay
in 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 rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right
foot,leftfoot
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the
sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Lindaland
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posted May 03, 2007 03:09 AM
posted May 05, 2007 04:46 AM
even the glasses and plates are made of ice. There’s also an ice chapel for “white” weddings, ice art galleries. Most guests stay only one night in an ice room; ordinary heated hotel rooms are available nearby for longer stays. Even so, the hotel has a waiting list several years long.
posted May 11, 2007 12:59 PM