· Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients
· The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
· Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
· Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize
· The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake
· The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney"
· It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
· The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
· The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
· The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
· There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
· X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
· The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
· It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour
· Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
· Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982
· Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
· Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
· Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
· Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains
· Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
· The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent
· To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe
· Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures
· The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
· Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day
· The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
· 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
· Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF
· The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas
· Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years
· Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness
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