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A few interesting facts
So - you think you know everything..........
- A dime has 118 ridges around it's edge
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- A crocodile can not stick out it's tongue
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of only 24 hours
- A goldfish has a memory span of only 3 seconds - sorry Rancette
- A "jiffy" is an actual measurement 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 3 yrs.
- Al Capone's business card said that he was a used furniture dealer
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 dollar bill
- Almonds are a member of the peach family
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
- Babies are born without kneecaps - they don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 yrs of age. - Actually we poked and proded little princess' legs tonight and I can verify that 7 month old's don't have them.
- Butterfly's taste with their feet
- Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, Dogs have only 10
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with the letters "mt"
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- In the last 400 yrs there have not been any new animals to be domesticated.
- If the population of China walked past you, in a single file, the 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 is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors - and remember, don't run with them in your hands.
- Maine is the only state who's name is just one syllable
- No (real)word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliment building is an American Flag.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our ears and nose never stop growing - this in no way explains what happened to Michael Jackson's nose - his actually got smaller.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated - I wonder if this would work with condoms?
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word types 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, moved only 6 inches per each gallon of diesel that burned - talk about pollution.
- The microwave was invented after a reseacher walked past a radar tube and a chocolate bar in his pocked melted - couldn't have been from excessive body heat, could it?
- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra Falls froze solid
- The words "racecar, kayak and level" are the same whether read forwards or backwards
- There are 293 ways to make change from a dollar bill
- There are more chickens than people in this world
- There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous
- There are only two words in the English language that have all five of the vowles in order: "abstemious" and "facetious"
- There is 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 only 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 would digest itself.
Now you know almost everything.
Friends
- Off to San Francisco for the week. Hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving week!
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