Monday, March 29, 2010

do you know everything?

>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 reco rded 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 i s 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 e nd 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 u almost know a lot of things!

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