1. Onions have no flavor. They just have smell.
2. No less than 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide every day.
3. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
4. It’s not just humans who are right or left handed. Even dogs and cats are that way.
5. A Tibetan monk had invented the French ticker.
6. The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
7. One burns more calories sleeping than by watching TV.
8. Some of the Nazi SS uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss.
9. A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly.
10. Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
11. Next time you see polar bears with transparent and fluffy fur; do give a thought to the fact that they actually have black skin.
12. The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. You can detect the noise over 800 kilometers away.
13. A chameleon can see in two different directions at the same time.
14. The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
15. A snail can sleep for three years.
16. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds whereas dogs have just 10.
17. Twitchers are defined as people who chase rare birds.
18. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
19. There are some types of frogs who are frozen solid then thawed and still continue living.
20. There is only one mammal who cannot jump and that is Elephant.
21. If you think coffee beans are beans then you are mistaken. They are actually fruit pits.
22. The people in Bali only have one of four names : Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut.
23. Human’s eyes have the capability of detecting an astonishing 10 million colors.
24. There are more pyramids in Peru Egypt
25. Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.
26. Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
27. Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky.
28. The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
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