Fun Trivia - Part V

·         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

Contributed by asharaj53 @ gmail.com

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