1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite for blood.

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

5. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

6. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

7. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

8. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

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

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

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

12. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

13. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

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

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

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

17. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling.

18. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!

19. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

20. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.

21. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

22. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. (eg, EuropE, AsiA, AfricA, AustraliA, AntarticA)

23. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before eating.