Knowledge tid-bits

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.*

*The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.*

*Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.*

*The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.*

*Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.*

*We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.*

*Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.*

*People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.*

*People with blue eyes see better in dark.*

*Money isn?t made out of paper; it is made out of cotton.*

*A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.*

*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. *

*Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.*

*When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.*

*There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.*

*German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.*

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

*Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.*

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

*It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.*

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

*The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.