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Interesting fact #1. 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.

Interesting fact #2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Interesting fact #3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Interesting fact #4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

Interesting fact #5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

Interesting fact #6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

Interesting fact #7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Interesting fact #8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Interesting fact #9. 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.

Interesting fact #10. 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.

Interesting fact #11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

Interesting fact #12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Interesting fact #13. 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).

Interesting fact #14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

Interesting fact #15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

Interesting fact #16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

Interesting fact #17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

Interesting fact #18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

Interesting fact #19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

Interesting fact #20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

Interesting fact #21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

Interesting fact #22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

Interesting fact #23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

Interesting fact #24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

Interesting fact #25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

Interesting fact #26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

Interesting fact #27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

Interesting fact #28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

Interesting fact #29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

Interesting fact #30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Interesting fact #31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Interesting fact #32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Interesting fact #33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Interesting fact #34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Interesting fact #35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

Interesting fact #36. 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.

Interesting fact #37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Interesting fact #38. 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).

Interesting fact #39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

Interesting fact #40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Interesting fact #41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Interesting fact #42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

Interesting fact #43. 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)

Interesting fact #44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Interesting fact #45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

Interesting fact #46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

Interesting fact #47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Interesting fact #48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

Interesting fact #49. 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.

Interesting fact #50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!