Saturday, October 8, 2011

Interesting Facts

  1. 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.
  2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
  3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
  5. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
  6. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-old's laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
  7. 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.
  8. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  9. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
  10. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
  11. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
  12. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
  13. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
  14. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
  15. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
  16. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
  17. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
  18. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
  19. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles
  20. bursting.
  21. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
  22. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
  23. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly
  24. from the air.
  25. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
  26. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  27. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
  28. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  29. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
  30. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
  31. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
  32. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!

STPM State Trial Papers 2011

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Good Luck Form 3's!

We wish every Form 3 student out there especially students of SMK Seafield who will be doing their PMR all the best! Good luck and make your school proud guys!

Much love from The Science & Math's Club.