Interesting Facts

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

Now I know why my roti canai curry had some sticky stuff in it.

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

Some people can breathe, swallow and talk at the same time everytime!

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

Oh! I belong to the other 3% - I will scribble only.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

Women!

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

Must increase to 500° - only then can see beautiful ladies!

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

Does not apply to human heads!

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

Malaysia pls don’t do that – postmen will have nightmares!

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Some extend till old – wailing until the whole taman can hear but also no tears!

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

The snow god must have missed.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

No wonder plants thrive when we talk to them – our saliva is warm!

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

No wonder kids can’t hear a word their parents say.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

Good to scare your mum-in-law.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

Huh?

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

That’s why so many accidents!

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

Oh! Oh! The next time we go to NRD we will have to give tongue-print!

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

Anyone wanna try?

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

Don’t tell the boss or he will make us switch off the air-cond!

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

So what? Our projects are not made of ice but also re-built every year!

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

Huh?

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

Then why are we paying tons of money to buy cholesterol reducing supplements?

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

Nitrogen? No wonder humans explode so easily!