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KoChun
06-16-2005, 10:43 AM
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

19. 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

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

KoChun
06-16-2005, 10:44 AM
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

If anyone offers me Mont Blanc, I will definitely start writing with immediately. :cheesy:

WitchKing
06-16-2005, 11:08 AM
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

....figures. :eek:

Sila
06-16-2005, 11:14 AM
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

why not do tongue prints on the mycard ha?? :p

vicky boy
06-16-2005, 12:15 PM
why not do tongue prints on the mycard ha?? :p
ha ha ha ha......at the autogate at KLIA: please slot in ur passport and Lick here to access.... hahahahaha :eek: :eek:

shiruikage
06-16-2005, 08:09 PM
ha ha ha ha......at the autogate at KLIA: please slot in ur passport and Lick here to access.... hahahahaha :eek: :eek:
better if the air stewardess are there to taste it instead of letting a machine do it. :laugh:

Sila
06-17-2005, 02:27 AM
better if the air stewardess are there to taste it instead of letting a machine do it. :laugh:
aiya.. no fun for girls then. the stewards are usually, ummm, shall we say "not very macho"?? :p

siewjang
06-17-2005, 10:23 AM
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. - not very sure about that but I know that if you do it near a window or airy place. On a fan next to you also can.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient! - babies even drink while closing their eyes cos babies can't do two things at once.

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name. - go to a shop selling pens. What do you see scribbling on the scrap paper? scribble only. Where got name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. - Those mouse at my house are vegetarians too :mad: eat all my veges

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. - sounds all the same no matter how i knock them ... duhh

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. - And newborn only see things black and white. They can only see thing at a very close range like maybe 20cm?

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. - Oh how i wish it snow in Malaysia now.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. - oh really ka. And I know if you water your plants (especially indoor) with 7-up, it will grow larger too.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. - You can try eggs too :D (Children, don't try this at home)

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints. - didn't know our tongue has prints too

yee keong
06-17-2005, 10:24 AM
macam lah all the stewardess dem cun ;P

shiruikage
06-17-2005, 08:11 PM
macam lah all the stewardess dem cun ;P
true...but many i saw are. i expecially partial towards the korean air stewardess...

yee keong
06-17-2005, 09:30 PM
with your title and signature, your inclination should be more to the 'yamate yamate' side right??

shiruikage
06-17-2005, 09:44 PM
with your title and signature, your inclination should be more to the 'yamate yamate' side right??
:o :laugh: :noworry: but of coz. :)