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Useful facts - 2

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.

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

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and
ears never stop growing.

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.

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.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals
in the world that
walk rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot,
rather than right
foot,left foot...

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a
fatty meal.

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