JSKY Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERTHING!!!!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 Memorialon 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 appearuntil 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 afull 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 Parliamentbuilding 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 handand "lollipop" with your right.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" usesevery letter of the alphabet.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the lettersonly on one row of the keyboard.The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon ofdiesel that it burns.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radartube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completelysolid.The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether theyare 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 hazardousThere are two words in the English language that have all fivevowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robroy Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 I think I've waited at stoplights for six months in the last 10 yearsthanks for all that useless information which, now that i've read it, I won't be able to forgetJD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cowsgonemadd3 Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 "All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorialon the back of the $5 bill."Amazing! A whole lot are im going to pass them on! Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TymeKyller Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 Lol... Hi JSKY!!Cool Thread! Glad I'm not a Dragonfly!!"thanks for all that useless information which, now that i've read it, I won't be able to forget"LOL....hahahaha Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marko_tomas13 Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 u mean you didnt know that already??...wow hahabtw canada doesnt use 2 dollar bills anymore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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