Amazing Facts

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a Person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!(Sorry i forgot that v know only to eat :) )

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

3. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite (suck blood) as they need protein to lay eggs.

4. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow Then it is ripe.

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

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

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

8. Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today

9. The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education

10. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization

11. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's Wealth.

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

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

14. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints. (Try to use it for a project!!! lol )

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14. 4 calories per hour by Breathing.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk Rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,left Foot...

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

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

22. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days