Amazing Facts - 8

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








It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.









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







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








Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.







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








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








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










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 .












Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.









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