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1. Chewing a gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Another remedy is to keep peeled onion in bowl of water for about 5 minutes before cutting it.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.

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

4. Onle female mosquitoes bite (Males are vegetarians???)

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.

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

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 right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot; Others walk right foot, left foot, right foot, 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 the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

22.   Children dreams much more than adults do but children don't see themselves in their dreams during their first three-four years.

23.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

24.  It is impossible to lick your elbow.

25.  Sneezing too hard can fracture a rib.

26.  Holding yourself from sneezing at the very time can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck.

27.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

 Spades - King David

 Clubs - Alexander the Great

 Hearts - Charlemagne

 Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

28.  If a statue of a person in the park 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 causes.

29.  Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were All invented by women.

30.  Genuine Honey doesn't expire.

31.  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

32.  Elephants cannot jump.

33.  STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand on a keyboard.