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KNOW YOURSELF

8 August 2008

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

7. 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.

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

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

10. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

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

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

13. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

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

15. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

16. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

18. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!


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