FUN FACT

  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 
  • The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue. 
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 
  • Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. 
  • A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it! 
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself 
  • Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. 
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 
  • It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. 
  • Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet. 
  • The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 
  • A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. 
  • Butterflies taste with their feet. 
  • Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump. 
  • Starfish don't have brains (tebayang cita Spongebob, owh, patutla Patrick macam tuh).
  • Polar bears are left handed. 
  • A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. 
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. 
  • The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. 
  • Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating 
  • Porcupines float in water. 
  • Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. 
  • Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.<

CREATIVE AND USEFUL KITCHEN TOOLS

Corn Stripper
Removing corn kernels from cobs has never been easier. The OXO Good Grips Corn Stripper features a container that catches the kernels as they are stripped from the cob.



Banana Handle
Slide the ripe yellow heat-resistant banana peel onto any pan handle and you are fully protected.



Peter Petrie Egg Separator
Hand-crafted ceramic head sporting a quizzical expression and a huge nose. To use it, you crack an egg into the separator and tilt it forward.