0) In Albania nodding your head means a
and shaking your head means a
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.
2) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4) Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5) Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
6) The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
7) The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8) The average person who stops smoking
requires one hour less sleep a night.
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.
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.
11) Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
12) An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
13) Camels have 3 eyelids to protect their eyes from sand.
14) The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
15) Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.
16) A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
17) About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.
18) China has the most TV sets
19) The Dead Sea is 365 m (1,200 ft) below sea level.
20) Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year because it is built on top of an underground reservoir.