Amazing Facts 9

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Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.

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

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Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains

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Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet

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The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent

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

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Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures

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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'

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Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day

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The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night

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40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals

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Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF

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The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas

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Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years

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Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness