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semen
  • In ancient times, semen was once used as antacid to treat heartburns
  • A teaspoon of semen has more calories than 100ml of Diet Coke
  • Semen is ejaculated at a speed of 25mph

honey
  • Honey is the only food that will not spoil because it is hydroscopic, and kills bacteria by sucking water out from them
  • Honey is better than commercial syrups in helping children battle the cough at night
  • Honey has also been found in the tombs of egyptian pharoahs

snail
  • A snail can sleep for three years
  • A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces
  • A garden snail has thousands of tiny teeth located on a ribbon like tongue and work like a file and rip the food to bits
  • Snails can gnaw through limestone.They eat the little bits of chalk in the rock which they need for their shells
  • As a snail grows its shell grows too
  • They can mate when they are about one year old. This is odd because a snail is both male and female (hermaphrodite). However the snails need to exchange sperms with each other to fertilize an egg
  • Some snails can live up to 15 years
  • People in South America and Korea use snail slime to make their skin smooth

scarecrows
  • Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)

hiccups, hiccough
  • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
  • You can effectively stop hiccups by holding your breath for 30 seconds. If you hiccup while attempting this, you will need to breathe in and start again

mosquito
  • Only female mosquitoes bite. Males only drink water and plant juice. (and this is true for many species…)
  • A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
  • It would take 1,120,000 mosquito bites to drain the average human of blood
  • Mosquito repellents dont really repel mozzies. They actually block the sensory pores and makes the mozzies think they’re flying to a colder, dryer, more CO2 free area. VIOLA! No bites Thanx Davina
  • You are more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes if you eat a lot of bananas

garlic
  • If you rubbed garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and eventually show up on your breath (unsure)
  • People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs

gum
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
  • Different materials were used for chewing before gum was invented. The Greeks used mastic tree resin; the Italians, frankincense; the West Indians, aromatic twigs; the Arabs, beeswax
  • Chewing gum used to be made of paraffin wax
  • The gum we know today was created by Thomas Adams. The interesting fact was that it was made from Sapodilla tree sap (chicle) while Thomas was looking for a cheaper alternative to rubber, but was unable to refine the chicle. Instead he turned them into chewing gum
  • Chewing gum is banned in Singapore

coconut
  • The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!

horseshoe crab
  • The horse shoe crab has blue blood which can be used to kill bacteria


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