Friday, April 3, 2009

Facts....Interesting and bizzare:

  • If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  • The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
  • Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
  • Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
  • Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

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