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4141/ In the 1983 film JAWS 3D
the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were stuffed ET
dolls being sold at the time.
4142/ Fresh apples float because
25 per cent of their volume is air.
4143/ Lemons contain more sugar
than strawberries.
4144/ Phobatrivaphobia is fear
of trivia about phobias.
4145/ No word in the English
language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
4146/ The book of Esther in the
Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of
God.
4147/ Yogurt intake among North
Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
4148/ Grapes explode when you
put them in the microwave.
4149/ The porcupine's love for
salt often leads the animal to roadways or walkways where
salt has been sprinkled to melt the ice. They will lick and
gnaw on anything containing salt, such as saddles, canoe paddles
and axe handles.
4150/ Daily about ten billion
tiny scales of skin rub off your body, float through the air
and land on the floor, furniture, lawn or other people.
4151/ In a lifetime you could
fill eighteen kilo flour bags with dead skin!
4152/ For the Masai people of
Tanzania, Africa, spitting is considered a show of goodwill.
Newborn babies are spat upon to bring the child luck, and
deals are often closed only after the traders spit upon one
another.
4153/ If you eat lots of red
beets, your pee will actually be coloured red.
4154/ The belly acid called hydrochloric
acid is so strong that it can eat up stainless steel razor
blades.
4155/ The number of eye blinks
varies greatly from about twenty nine each minute if you are
talking to someone. To only four blinks each minute if you
are reading.
4156/ On your palm are more than
2,000 sweat glands in an area about the size of a postage
stamp. Actually, the palms and the soles of your feet have
more sweat glands than anywhere else on your body.
4157/ During normal breathing,
the speed that you exhale air is about four miles per hour.
During a sneeze, the air speed can reach up to forty miles
per hour.
4158/ About 250,000 little holes,
or pores, on the soles of your feet squirt one-quarter cup
of sweat each day.
4159/ The Rabies virus heads
for the brain where it blocks the nerve signals that cause
swallowing. Swallowing becomes incredibly painful. Spit full
of viruses dribbles out of the mouth. Hence the 'foaming at
the mouth'.
4160/ As a result of the gaps
forming between cells, the blood vessels naturally get larger
and more blood rushes to the area making it feel hot. That's
why body parts, where there are germs, appear red and swollen.
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