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If
you are right handed, you will tend to chew your
food on your right side. If you are left handed, you
will tend to chew your food on your left side.
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent
when a person looks at something pleasing.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next
to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of
blood surging through the veins in the ear.
The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to
wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also
turns red.
It cost seven million dollars to build the Titanic
and 200 million to make a film about it.
The oldest surviving carpet is the celebrated Pazyryk
carpet, which is over 2,000 years old. It was found
in the 1940s in a Scythian tomb in southern Siberia.
A person sheds about 1.5 million skin flakes an
hour, most of which becomes embedded in our carpets.
In the Middle Ages, floors were covered with
thrushes, which acted like a disposable carpet. If
it got dirty, it was thrown away.
Flu viruses can live up to 48 hours on hard, nonporous
surfaces such as stainless steel and up to 12 hours
on cloth and tissues. They can remain infectious for
about one week at human body temperature, over 30
days at freezing temperatures, and indefinitely at
temperatures below freezing.
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