and you think you know everything !
Just when you thought you knew 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; lollipop" with your right. -The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. -The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts. -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! |
Re:and you think you know everything !
oh ya, one more
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. :o |
Re:and you think you know everything !
I lost concentration about two sentences in.
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Re:and you think you know everything !
ummmmmmmm useless info....
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Re:and you think you know everything !
Originally Posted by onyx
ummmmmmmm useless info....
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Re:and you think you know everything !
Sadly, I read them all. :-[
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Re:and you think you know everything !
i am a much smarter person now... I read all that ----...lol
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i figure it this way. one day i might be on who wants to be a millionar , jepordy or some ---- like that. and they could ask one of those questions. ???
no no probly not :P |
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...wow... I actually read them all too.
But I have to debate something: -It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. it is possible, I force my eyes to stay slightly open (can't have it completely open, but enough to still see) when I sneeze while driving. Split second makes a difference you know. ;) |
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it is physically impossible to lick your elbow
cat urine glows under a blacklight a ducks quack doesn't echo....anywhere a full grown jaquar can out run a jaquar car in 0-60 it takes 1 pound of pressure to hold an aligators mouth shut 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow |
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