TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Until 1999, the Guinness Book of Records repeated the popular misconception that Toronto’s Yonge Street was 1,896 km (1,178 mi) long, and thus the longest street in the world; this was due to a mistaken conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario’s Highway 11. Yonge Street is in actuality 56 kilometers long.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A cockroach’s brain spread throughout its body. If you chop off its head, it can still live for up to a week. It finally dies because it can’t eat.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Crocodiles do in fact produce tears. They have lacrimal glands, just like humans.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Tigers have striped skin under their hair, but zebras don’t.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Lettuce contains two to ten parts of morphine per billion.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Morphine was named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The tongue of a blue whale weighs about as much as a full-grown elephant or a 2005 Hummer H2 SUV.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In space, no one can hear you cry. Because you can’t. Astronauts are unable to cry properly because there is no gravity and tears cannot flow properly as they would on Earth. It is possible to produce tears in space – but they would leave the eye and float around.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The small town of Codell in Kansas was hit by a deadly tornado on May 20th, 1918. Not especially remarkable – except it had also been hit by tornados at around the same time in the evening, on the same day, in 1917 and 1916 as well.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare condition in which a blind person doesn’t realise they are blind. They usually insist they can see perfectly well, and make up excuses for why they make errors – such as blaming the quality of light in the room, or saying they’re a bit tired.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

U.S. Dollar bills are made from cotton.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Soviet Union was the first country to have a spacecraft on the moon – not the Unites States. In 1959, Luna 2 was the first craft to crash-land on the moon. In February, 1966, Luna 9 was the first soft-landed craft on the moon which relayed back pictures. Four months later, the United States landed its first craft on the moon (Surveyor I).

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A pelican can hold about 25 pounds of fish in its pouch.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Before year 1000, the word “she” didn’t exist in the English language.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In the months before he died, Elvis Presley ate an average of about 65,000 calories each day. That’s the equivalent if the maximum recommended daily caloric intake of 26 adult men or 108 Big Macs.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Sign-language users have been known to sign in their sleep.