ACTS: Some Facts
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1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
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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.
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4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
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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.
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7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
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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.
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10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
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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.
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13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
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14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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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.
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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.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/588.jpg)
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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.
![](http://www.ieoonions.com/images/photos/prep_tip_hero_photo.jpg)
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.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/578.jpg)
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
![](http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/CRT/CRT288/15359-48AT.jpg)
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
![](http://www.nustreams.com/41286a_girl_holding_a_pen_n_thinking.jpg)
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
![](http://georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu/graphicsfiles/mosquito%20low.jpg)
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
![](http://www.retinareddy.com/image/eye.jpg)
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/579.jpg)
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/580.jpg)
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/581.jpg)
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/582.jpg)
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
![](http://www.diabeteshealthconnection.com/images/healthy_living/monitoring_sub_pic.jpg)
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/583.jpg)
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
![](http://images.foodnetwork.com/webfood/images/cooking/fruitandveggieguide/grapes.jpg)
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/584.jpg)
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/585.jpg)
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/586.jpg)
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
![](http://www.palatinit.com/en/Food_Ingredients/ISOMALT/ISOMALT_Applications/Chewing_Gums/PALA_Coated_Products-Green.jpeg)
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system
and be excreted.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/587.jpg)
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
![](http://www.auction-air.com/timesonlineauctionroom/highbidauction/lots/images/icehotel_w400.jpg)
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/588.jpg)
![](http://www.kitten-central.com/images/breeds/turkish-angora-cat-photo-2.jpg)
![](http://www.pegham.com/images/imported/2006/10/406.gif)
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.
![](http://www.ieoonions.com/images/photos/prep_tip_hero_photo.jpg)
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a atty meal.
![](http://media.nasaexplores.com/lessons/04-017/images/hearing_ear.gif)
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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