amazing facts

[RR]

(cut&pasted from another sweetoo thread.)

Posted: 28 Jan 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: amazing....

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>Here Are Some Amazing Facts
>
>* Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
>
>* Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same
>time.
>* Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own
>name.
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
>* The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
>* To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow
>then it is ripe.
>* Canadians can send letters with personalised postage stamps showing their
>own photos on each stamp.
>* Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to
>eight weeks old.
>* It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
>* Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants
>watered with cold water.
>* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear
>by 700 times.
>* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
>* Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called
>phosphenes.
>* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
>stop growing.
>* Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
>* Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the
>gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
>* At 40° Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by
>breathing.
>* There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every
>year.
>* Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk
>right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left
>foot ....
>* Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
>* The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of
>nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
>* In most watch advertisments the time displayed on the watch is 10:10
>because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like its
>smiling.
>* The color blue can have a calming affect on people. Depending upon the
>shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body
>* Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other
>simultaneously.
>* Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear
>no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
>* The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head
>are the rabbit and parrot.
>* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
>uncopyrightable.
>* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
>reaches 2-6 years of age.
>* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
>* The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
>start.
>* Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the
>wire.
>* All U. S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to
>be seen wearing them in public.
>* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
>purple.
>* Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before they can be eaten
>* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
>never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>* The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees
> both military and civilian. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200
>clocks, drink from 691 water fountains, utilize 284 rest rooms, consume 4
>500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or
>served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons Over 200,000 telephone calls are
>made daily through phones connected by 100,000 miles of telephone cable.
>
>
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....ZINDA REHTI HAIN MOHABBATEIN....

[blahblah]

[quote="RR"]
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Nothing new.It is the same with all species.

[Roshan]

Interesting stuff really !!

[Surya]

blah blah!
Sad and scary but true.

[Querida]

The average person laughs 10 times a day!
why?
because of wise guy comments such yours blah blah! :P

[Surya]

The world is gifted with wise-guys like Blah Blah.

[NOV]

Lessons in English

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may
find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house
is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural
of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the
feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example ... If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from
Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a
recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?

[nirosha sen]

Boy, that is certainly a conundrum I grapple with as volunteer English teacher, Pa!! More so, considering we speak English at home!! Most of my Tamil school children are just way too perplexed when I try to explain my way through their bewilderment!!

So, now I play smart. I keep telling them, "where English is concerned, there are always exception to the rule"!! Just to get them off my back, when they try to rationalise the very rules I lay down as per my little grammar book!!!!

[Bad Boy]

[quote="blahblah"]

>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Nothing new.It is the same with all species.

Some not only bite, even worse: They kill you and eat you up: black widow - Latrodectus mactans.

Well, did you know that there is a suspission regarding shakespear? It is said that he is not the author of his books but his employer's wife?

[pavalamani pragasam]

A chemical treatise on woman:
Chemical symbol: Wo
Atomic weight: Approximately 120
Found: Where man is present
Physical properties: Can never boil, but may freeze at any time. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not used well. Very active. Possesses an affinity for gold, silver and precious metals. Violent when left alone. Able to absorb great quantities of exotic food. Turns slightly green when placed beside a better looking specimen. Ages rapidly.
Uses: Highly ornamental. Catalyses disintegration of wealth. Most powerful income-reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands.