- If you are right handed, you tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you tend to chew your food on your left side.

- If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

- The Mercedes-Benz motto is "Das Beste oder Nichts" meaning "the best or nothing".

- The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

- Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

- The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

- Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.

- The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

- The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

- Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

- The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

- Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

- The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

- The names of the three wise monkeys are Mizaru (see no evil), Mikazaru (hear no evil), and Mazaru (speak no evil).

- The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!

Contributed by Misbah Paracha

Computer acronyms

- BASIC - Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control

- ISDN - It Still Does Nothing

- APPLE - Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

- WWW - World Wide Wait

- DOS - Defunct Operating System

- IBM - I Blame Microsoft

- CD-ROM - Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

- OS/2 - Obsolete Soon, Too

- MACINTOSH - Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs

- PENTIUM - Produces Erroneous Numbers Thruough Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics

- WINDOWS - Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

- MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

Best excuses if you get caught sleeping in your cubicle

- It's okay... I'm still billing the client.

n They told me at the blood bank this might happen.

- This is just a 15-minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to.

- I was working smarter, not harder.

- Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper.

- I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!

- This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!

- This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!

- I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?