shep48 February 2, 2005 Share shep48 Member February 2, 2005 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. A person's left hand does 56% of the typing on average. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenger February 2, 2005 Share Kenger Member February 2, 2005 ... lol u made me look at a 5 dollar bill a lot of neat tid bits there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBugs February 2, 2005 Share TheBugs Member February 2, 2005 me too! Some of them i knew, other i didnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMamma February 3, 2005 Share YoMamma Member February 3, 2005 cool facts! I only knew a couple of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KagE February 4, 2005 Share KagE Member February 4, 2005 funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty February 4, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder February 4, 2005 Homework assignment: It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. I want everyone to turn have their pc-cams recording so we can have some vids of people attempting to disprove this one! Wait a second...nvmd, I know someone who did this...here's the pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux February 4, 2005 Share Acid-Flux Member February 4, 2005 AAAHAHAHA, man that def. deserves one of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty February 4, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder February 4, 2005 You guys know who that is, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty February 4, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder February 4, 2005 Also, is pwnt the only word to have no vowels and end in pwnt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL February 4, 2005 Share dwEEziL Member February 4, 2005 That's BuzzzNFrog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted_Break_Danson February 4, 2005 Share Ted_Break_Danson Member February 4, 2005 Although some people disagree, I believe "door hinge" is a legal rhyme with orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeK February 4, 2005 Share TeK Member February 4, 2005 "A man, A plan, A canal, Panama" I've yet to find a longer palindrome in the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yErMoTH3r February 4, 2005 Share yErMoTH3r GC Founder February 4, 2005 There are only 15 words in teh english dictionary that contain STFU in them: boaSTFUl cheSTFUl disguSTFUl distruSTFUl fiSTFUl ghaSTFUl luSTFUl miSTFUl mistruSTFUl reSTFUl thruSTFUl triSTFUl truSTFUl wiSTFUl zeSTFUl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yErMoTH3r February 4, 2005 Share yErMoTH3r GC Founder February 4, 2005 "A man, A plan, A canal, Panama" I've yet to find a longer palindrome in the world <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html Latest 17,256 Word Palindrome of course im partial to this 40000 word palindrome: http://nickm.com/misc/utterance.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwOOp February 4, 2005 Share SwOOp Member February 4, 2005 "If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. " If you were living in Kokomo, Indiana, the average would be roughly a year and 6 months. Kokomo is known as stoplight city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkiller February 5, 2005 Share simkiller Member February 5, 2005 If Goldfish only have memories of 3 seconds, then why is it my goldfish swim to the top of the tank right before I put the fish food in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty February 5, 2005 Share Fatty GC Founder February 5, 2005 Ask the guy with the steak and the bell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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