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-The **thyroid cartilage**** is more commonly known as the ***adam's apple.*
-The only **jointless bone *in your body is the thyroid bone in your throat, commonly called *adam's apple.**
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OMG yes!!!! How r u? hope ur good..congratzz on being a MOD!
im fine. Thanks :) How are you??
Here's a science fact that i just discovered:
Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7!!
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^am fine :)
and this one has nothing to do with science but still :
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.
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WOW!
Amazing how the body works eh?
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foetus development: Eyelids are developed before the eyeball. Eyelids after early development are fused together and do not open till third trimester when the eyes are developed enough and it is safe to open the eyes.
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Most of these are amazing like the 2 swimming pools (are they below or above ground :p) but i think some are just made up. Like these -
We humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling us down.
That's as true as they say that you grow an inch after suhag raat
some people say the same thing about their wife's cooking - and they dont even have to pinch the nose or close the eyes.
Love can do amazing things, doesn't it? haha
^ We can't tickle ourselves. Even if we are ticklish to the max!!
I can tickle myself
Bone is five times stronger than steel.
Can't be true.
Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.
Was it from Poland? lol, sorry, bad joke
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I love them all. Keep em coming!
Here's one more: An average human eats about 60,000 pounds of food which is equivalent to 6 elephants!
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If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
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m loving this thread 
1-One of the most amazing plants in the world because of its usefulness is the coconut; hence it is regarded as the “tree of life”. Coconut water can be substituted for blood plasma during emergencies because it possesses the perfect PH level and is also sterile.
2-Most people drink coffee to stay awake. Do you know that the sugar in apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee? So why not take an apple instead of a coffee.
3-The largest recorded fruit in the world is a pumpkin. It weighed more than 782 kilograms or 1725 lbs
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@PINKY- Is that really true?
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You got that from the BBC's Everything and Nothing didn't you? Awesome fact though.
I find that hard to believe.
Random fact: It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
I didn't believe it either and then I tried it. You really can't tell!
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You can try to find it if it's true or not :@:
i think its true due to the beta-carotene content in carrots.
here are is my strange and wonderful fact:
Each pineapple plant only produces just one pineapple per year.
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i think its true due to the beta-carotene content in carrots.
Yes, that's right beta-carotene has a orange pigment and that's what makes the carrot orange as well. Although I am not sure on the safety of this because beta-carotene is converted to Vitamin A. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin and can build up in the body and cause toxicity.
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-A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
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Keep um coming loving them
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i think its true due to the beta-carotene content in carrots.
here are is my strange and wonderful fact:
Each pineapple plant only produces just one pineapple per year.
Really? kinda like the banana plant that gives one time fruit and then dies!! Bechara :(
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I'm sure you've all read this before but I find it interesting:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.