Daffodil International University
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Nutrition and Food Engineering => Topic started by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:05:59 AM
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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.
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If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
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The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
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The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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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.
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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.
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Dalmatians are born without spots.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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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).
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Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
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The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
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The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
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Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
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The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
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When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
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The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
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The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
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Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
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It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
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The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
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There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
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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.
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Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
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Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
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Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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No president of the United states was an only child.
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.