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by Dan Lietha

"A foolish man speaks before he thinks, a wise man thinks before he speaks, but a godly man lets his life speak for him."

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Did You Know?

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears.
Try it next time you chop onions!
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

This is weird but true!
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you)
While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.

The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is around if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.

The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes.
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

The foolish man lusts after instant pleasure,
the wise man seeks knowledge,
but the godly man yearns for God's truth.