FACTS

• Scare crow frighten birds because if the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. However with rain and wind, this odor disappears.
• The human skin is thickest (1/5 inch) on the upper back. It is the thinnest on the eyelids, where it is only 1/50th of an inch thick.
• Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours. However inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours to travel the entire organ.
• If a person has two thirds if his liver removed through surgery, it will grow back to its original size in only four weeks time.
• Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. He could also draw with one hand and write with the other. He also wrote his notes backwards.
• A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air.
• The bridge that has been built across the world’s highest waterfall, the Niagara Falls, actually began with a kite carrying a line across it to the other side.
• According to researches, the ship of the desert, the Camel has three eyelids in order to protect itself from the bowling sand in the deserts.
• Mt. Everest (8848m) is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain on the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater.
• House flies taste with their feet. They always jumps backwards which they use as a means of a quick getaway when someone tries to hit it.
• The revolutionary e-mails started being sent as early as 1971. Ray Tomlinson invented it and the first e-mail was written entirely in the upper case.