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Old Monday, April 24, 2006
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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) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.


3) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.


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


5) The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.


6) The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.


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


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


9) 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.


10) 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.


11) Dalmatians are born without spots.


12) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


13) 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)


14) Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left


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


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


17) Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks


18) The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones


19) Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die


20) Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for
your heart


21) The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate


22) When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red


23) When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red


24) The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a
tomato can for a carburetor


25) The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney


26) Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros


27) Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of
Flapan, instead of flag of Japan


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


29) The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples


30) There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower


31) The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the
sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting


32) Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death


33) It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body


34) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets


35) Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game


36) 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


37) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born,
and 140,000 people die


38) In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is
10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch
(and make it look like it is smiling.)


39) Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish
speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."


40) The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its
head are the rabbit and the parrot


41) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair


42) The average person laughs 13 times a day


43) Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:
Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)


44) Women blink nearly twice as much as men


45) German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog


46) Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump


47) Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound


48) Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death


49) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.


50) The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt
blood 30 feet!!
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Salaam Yasir,
it's really a very informative contribution.
Thnx for sharing

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Thanx alot for the appreciation.................
the other day, one of our members said that Im sage of the forum............
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Thanks a lot for this kind information.
These are truely interesting information.
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Thanx yasir.....very informative material.
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Salam,

Good & v informative contribution indeed...
Thanx Yasir for sharing it....
Keep this spirit...

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Thanks Yasir Bhai for sharing such a valuable material.

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