• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
• 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 China walked past you, in 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's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 
• 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 Niagara Falls froze completely 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.
.............Now you know everything
Thursday, November 05, 2009
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