SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW
EVERYTHING?
>>
>> A dime has 118 ridges around the
edge.
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>> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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>> A crocodile cannot stick out its
tongue.
>>
>> A dragonfly has a life span of 24
hours.
>>
>> A goldfish has a memory span of
three seconds.
>>
>> A "jiffy" is an actual
unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
>>
>> A shark is the only fish that can
blink with both eyes.
>>
>> A snail can sleep for three years.
>>
>> Al Capone's business card said he
was a used furniture dealer.
>>
>> All 50 states are listed across the
top of the Lincoln Memorial on
>> the back of the $5 bill.
>>
>> Almonds are a member of the peach
family.
>>
>> An ostrich's eye is bigger than
its brain.
>>
>> Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child
>> reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
>>
>> Butterflies taste with their feet.
>>
>> Cats have over one hundred vocal
sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
>>
>> "Dreamt" is the only
English word that ends in the letters "mt."
>>
>> February 1865 is the only month in
recorded history not to have a
>> full moon.
>>
>> In the last 4,000 years, no new
animals have been domesticated.
>>
>> If the population of
>> line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>>
>> If you are an average American, in
your whole life, you will spend
> an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
>>
>> It's impossible to sneeze with
your eyes open.
>>
>> Leonardo Da
Vinci invented the scissors.
>>
>>
>>
>> No word in the English language
rhymes with month, orange, silver,
> or purple.
>>
>> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the
flag flying over the Parliament
>> building is an American flag.
>>
>> Our eyes are always the same size
from birth, but our nose and ears
>> never stop growing.
>>
>> Peanuts are one of the ingredients
of dynamite.
>>
>> Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
>>
>> "Stewardesses" is the
longest word typed with only the left hand
>> and "lollipop" with your right.
>>
>> The average person's left hand
does 56% of the typing.
>>
>> The cruise liner, QE2, moves only
six inches for each gallon of
>> diesel that it burns.
>>
>> The microwave was invented after a
researcher walked by a radar
>> tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
>>
>> The sentence: "The quick
brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
>> every letter of the alphabet.
>>
>> The winter of 1932 was so cold
that
>> solid.
>>
>> The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and
'level' are the same whether they
>> are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
>>
>> There are 293 ways to make change
for a dollar.
>>
>> There are more chickens than
people in the world.
>>
>> There are only four words in the
English language which end in
>> "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous
>>
>> There are two words in the English
language that have all five
> vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
>>
>> There's no Betty Rubble in the
Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
>>
>> Tigers have striped skin, not just
striped fur.
>>
>> TYPEWRITER is the longest word
that can be made using the letters
>> only on one row of the keyboard.
>>
>> Winston Churchill was born in a
ladies' room during a dance
>>
>> Women blink nearly twice as much
as men
>>
>> Your stomach has to produce a new
layer of mucus every two weeks;
>> otherwise it will digest itself.
>>
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