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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.

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If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

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

Banana peels can be used to clean leather shoes.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 per cent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

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.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Cold showers are actually more healthy and beneficial than hot ones.

Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

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

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

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

It cost seven million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

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.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

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

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most soccer players run seven miles in a game.

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.

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

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 itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

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.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

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.

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.

Facts from runningthroughmydreams.tumblr.com/post/2344528161
and from the iPod/iPhone/iPad game Fruit Ninja.

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