Fun Facts – 18 November 2015

• If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. 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 average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night
• Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day
• The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids
• Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
• Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
• Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan
• It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
• There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

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