Strange but True
31. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
32. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
33. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
34. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
35. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
36. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
38. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
39. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
40. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
New words
blood خون , tablecloth رومیزی , consider تصورکردن
insult توهین , beat تپیدن , camel شتر
protect محافظت کردن , bone استخوان , concrete بتون
separate جدا
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24. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
25. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
26. The only food that doesn't go bad is honey.
27. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
28. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
29. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
30. Coca-Cola was originally green.
New words
impossible غیر ممکن ، go bad فاسد شدن ، mice جمع موش
zinc روی ، copper مس
17. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
18. The earth is 4.56 billion years old ..the same age as the moon and the sun.
19. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus . In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
20. The most populated city in the world is Tokyo.
21. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
22. Our eyes are always the same size from our birth.
23. Earth is not round. It's slightly pear-shaped.
New words
eucalyptus درخت اکالیپتوس , was measured انداره گیری شده , heart قلب
whale وال , tongue زبان , pear-shaped گلابی شکل
10. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
11. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 miles per our.
12. A company in Taiwan makes plates out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
13. One quarter of the bones in your body is in your feet.
14. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
15. Chewing a piece of gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
16. It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the sun's surface to the earth.
New words
chewing gum / gum آدامس , sneeze عطسه , plate بشقاب
bone استخوان , fingerprint اثر انگشت , chew جویدن
1. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
2. Human blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
3. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
4. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
5. The most used letter in the English alphabet is E, and Q is the least used.
6. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.
7. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
8. The average iceberg weighs twenty million tons.
9. dolphins sleep with one eye open.
New words
nail ناخن , used کهنه , approximately تقریباٌ , fresh شیرین
earthquake زلزله , efficient موثر , iceberg کوه یخ
blink چشمک زدن
