Interesting facts!

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
2. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”
3. 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.
4. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
5. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
6. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots
12. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
13. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
14. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
15. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
16. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
17. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
18. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
19. 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.
20. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
21. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
22. Coca-cola was originally green.
23. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
25. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
28. A snail can sleep for three years.

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