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SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
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
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
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