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Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Nutrition and Food Engineering => Topic started by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:05:59 AM

Title: 50 Interesting Facts
Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:05:59 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:06:52 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:07:38 AM

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:08:04 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:08:31 AM

The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:08:59 AM

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:09:28 AM

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:10:04 AM

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:10:48 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:11:18 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:11:48 AM

Dalmatians are born without spots.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:12:21 AM

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:13:02 AM

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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:13:37 AM

Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:14:06 AM

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:14:38 AM

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:15:11 AM

Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:15:45 AM

The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:16:19 AM

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:16:55 AM
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:17:17 AM
The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:17:48 AM
 When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:18:13 AM
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:18:39 AM

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:19:16 AM
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:19:44 AM
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:20:38 AM
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:21:06 AM
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:21:32 AM
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:21:58 AM
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:22:27 AM
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:22:54 AM
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:23:20 AM
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:23:47 AM
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:24:12 AM
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:24:38 AM
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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:31:48 AM
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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:32:09 AM
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:32:35 AM
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:33:03 AM
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:33:32 AM
 Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:34:00 AM
 Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:34:27 AM
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:35:56 AM
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:36:23 AM
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:36:46 AM
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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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:37:13 AM
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:37:51 AM
No president of the United states was an only child.
And last and definitely most important
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:38:43 AM
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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Post by: nfe fouzia on November 28, 2015, 11:39:26 AM
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.