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Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”!!

Amazing facts about “Chewing Gum”

Most of us do have our very own favourite chewing gum, sometimes taken to soothe up relaxation, strengthen up concentration, after-meal take, etc. Ranging from Extras to Big Red… We love them especially with a touch of flavor like mint, cinnamon, strawberry, etc. Well, do you know what a chewing gum can do other than that?

“Chewing Gum after a meal can prevent heartburn!!”

I’m sure you’re surprised as I was the first time when I read about this. So here’s the reason to this amazing fact:

The list of ideas for easing heartburn is long and filled with home remedies, many unproved. But one of the simplest, chewing gum may be among the most effective.

"Heartburn results from digestive fluids traveling from stomach to esophagus in a process known as gastro esophageal reflux."

When scientists set out to study whether this could be countered by chewing gum, they assumed the answer would be no.
Instead they found that the saliva stimulated by chewing seemed to neutralize acid and help force fluids back to the stomach.
“In a study published in The journal of dental research, researchers had 31 people eat heartburn-inducing meals and then asked random subjects to chew sugar-free gum for 30 minutes. Acid levels after the meals were significantly lower when the participants chewed gum.”



The bottom line:
Studies show that chewing gum after a meal can significantly reduce the severity of heartburn.

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• A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.
• A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
• The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
• The bark of an older red wood tree is fire proof.
• The average American consumes nine pounds of food additives every year.
• 7000 new insects species are discovered every year.
• The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap
• Barbie’s fill name is babra Millicent Roberts.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
• Pearls melt in vinegar
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs..
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
• Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
• "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
• KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
• ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

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• The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
• The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.
• No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
• SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
• A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
• DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
• A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
• The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
• The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
• DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
• CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
• The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
• Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
• American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
• The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
• In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
• There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
• Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
• Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
• Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
• The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
• There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
• A male baboon can kill a leopard.
• When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
• Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

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• Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips ..
• A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death ..
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola
• Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
• Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game..
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance ..
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
• Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver!

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• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print
• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.
• The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
• The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
• The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
• The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
• The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
• The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
• The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
• The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.

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• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
• The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
• The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
• The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
• The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
• The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
• The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
• The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
• The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
• The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
• The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
• The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
• The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
• The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
• The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
• The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
• The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
• The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
• The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
• The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
• The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
• The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
• The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
• The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

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loL.. is that really true?

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1. It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese?
2. About 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking?
3. About 400 quarter pounders can be produced by one cow?
4. There are 26 species of peppers?
5. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib?
6. Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in America?
7. Sugar can lower your immune system?
8. The wreck of the TITANIC holds the oldest wine cellar in the world?
9. Acne is caused by bacteria?
10. 7-Up was invented in St. Louis?
11. You will not find burritoes in Mexico?
12. The most popular Easter candy in the US is chocolate eggs?
13. All hot chiles originates from the Western hemisphere?
14. Raw honey does not spoil?
15. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 2 mg of silver?
16. It takes about 8 - 10 seconds for food to travel down the esophagus?
17. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 7 mg of arsenic?
18. Peter Dowdeswell drunk 2 pints of milk in just 3.2 seconds?
19. Peter Dowdeswell ate 12 lb/5.44 kg of Ice cream in 45.5 seconds?
20. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 43 kg of oxygen?
21. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 0.2 mg of gold?
22. Tomato is the world's most popular fruit?
23. Tooth decay is still one of the most common human disease in the world?
24. The most popular ice cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry?
25. Antarctica is the only continent where pumpkins cant grow?
26. A Pumpkin is made of about 90 % of water?
27. Vermont is the only US state capital without a McDonalds restaurant?
28. Zoom teeth whitening can get Your teeth up to 10 Shades Whiter?
29. Grapes and egg will explode in the microwave?
30. The first ice cream parlour opened in New York City in 1776?
31. Coca-Cola was first bottled in Mississippi?
32. Coca-Cola was originally marketed for medical use?
33. Apples will melt in very hot weather?
34. Fanta was originally made from by products of cheese and jam?
35. A good cow produces about 200000 glasses of milk in her lifetime?
36. In the 1830s 7 - Up was sold as medicine?
37. Soy sauce is probably one of the oldest condiment in the world?
38. During Thanksgiving and Super Bowl the food consumption is larger than any other day in the US?
39. Some people in Malaysia wash their babies in beer to protect them from diseases?
40. The Mayans and Aztecs used to drink cocoa drinks?
41. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite?
42. Peanuts aren't really nuts but are actually a type of bean?
43. It takes about 5000 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of rice?
44. To make one liter of honey you will need the nectar from about 10 million flowers?
45. To make one pound of chocolate about 400 cocoa beans are required?
46. A bee produce only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey during her entire lifetime?
47. There are over 225 different kinds of bread in Germany?
48. Hot Dog comes from Germany?
49. Caesar Salad is not named after Julius Caesar but after chef Caesar Cardini?
50. If you eat too many carrots your skin could turn orange?

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1. No other species than humans drink milk from the mothers of other species?
2. If you kiss someone for one minute you will burn about 6 - 7 calories?
3. A kiss could result in an exchanged of over 270 colonies of bacteria?
4. The milk of reindeer has more fat than cow milk?
5. People in Sweden eat about 1 kg/person of ham each Christmas?
6. Sweden is one of the top consumers per capita of ketchup in the world?
7. The upperclass Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste?
8. If you lick 10 stamps you will consume one calorie?
9. Popcorn was invented by the American Indians?
10. Turks drink more tea than any other people in the world?
11. An overweight person is about 5 times more likely to get a heart disease?
12. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher?
13. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie?
14. It takes about 6 hours for your stomach to digest a high fat meal?
15. 25% of the weight of your old pillow is from dust & dust mites?
16. In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a pharmacist named John Pemberton who creator of Coca-cola?
17. Banging your head against a wall uses about 150 calories an hour?
18. Americans consume about 42 tons of Aspirin each day?
19. It takes about four and five pounds of grapes to make one pound of raisins?
20. The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest?
21. Rice is the staple food for 50% of the world’s population?
22. Potatoes, pineapples, and pumpkins originate from Peru?
23. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food?
24. Iceland is the world largest Coca-Cola consumers per capita?
25. China produces more apples than the rest of the world put together?
26. The city of Denver in Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger?
27. Pearls melt in vinegar?
28. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not?
29. Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying?
30. There is no butter in buttermilk?
31. There are over 40 000 varieties of rice grown worldwide?
32. 80% of the Vanilla Beans which are used in ice cream is grown in Madagascar?
33. Coca-Cola was originally green?
34. Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year?
35. The astronauts Neil Armstrong ate roasted turkey as his first meal on the moon?
36. All foods have some water in them?
37. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. It has twenty nine cash registers and measuring 28,000 square feet?
38. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV?
39. There are over 7 000 varieties of apples?
40. Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream in Europe?
41. You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself?
42. During your lifetime you will eat about the weight of 6 fullgrown elephants?
43. Rice contains no fiber at all?
44. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do?
45. The number 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the ingredients in the sauce?
46. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave?
47. Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health?
48. In the U.S. ice cream is sold most on a Sunday?
49. Americans eat 18% more vegetables today than they did in 1970?
50. One in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland?
51. In the 1800's people believed that gin could cure stomach problems?
52. Rice needs more water to grow than any other crop?
53. Patients stay in hospital for an average of almost 10 days in Switzerland, which has the most hospital beds per 1000 people?
54. On average, women in New Zealand do not give birth until they are 30 years old?
55. 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?

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Facts about the Great Wall of China



First built in the 7th century B.C, rebuilt and maintained between the 6th century BC and the 16th century, the great wall was built to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Mongolian attacks during the rule of successive dynasties.The most famous is the wall built between 220–200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang while little of it remains. Tthe current wall was built during the Ming Dynasty.
How long is the Great Wall?

The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles)from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total

Who, when and why built the Great Wall?

The Great Wall was first built in the 7th century B.C. when China was still divided into many small states.

• It is the travel icon of China and a world renowned tourist destination.
• It is a beautifully structured photogenic symbol with imposing watchtowers winding up and down steep hills, cliffs, plateaus and deserts from across the east coast to Xinjiang in the northwest of China.
• It was built by over a million people who happened to be peasants, prisoners and soldiers and thousands of them died in the process.
• It used to be called the Ten Thousand Li Wall which referred to the wall’s length. (1 li equals half a kilometer or one third of a mile).
• It was during the Qin (pronounced as "chin") dynasty that the modern word "China" was derived.
• The sections in the eastern part of China were built out of bricks and stones while in the western sections of wall were made out of less durable materials – earth and grass.
• The watch towers on the wall served as a deployment zone between one another.