Some Interesting Facts



Compiled by Archana Sasi

  • 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.
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  • The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
  • The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
  • 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.
  • Dalmatians are born without spots.
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  • Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
  • The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
  • Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
  • The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
  • Every time you sneeze, some of your brain cells die.
  • The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
  • When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
  • The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
  • Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
  • There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
  • The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
  • In most watch advertisements, the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
    is smiling).
  • Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command, “Go hang yourself.”
  • The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil)
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  •  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 
  • 'Go.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
  • It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow (or can you?)
  • Most dust particles in your house are from dead skin.
  • The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
  • No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  • If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 
  • When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. 
  • The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
  • Strange-but-true: The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day
  • The majority of those who read this will have tried to lick their elbows.


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