So you think you know everything huh....

LadyFish

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Well did you know:<br /><br />A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.<br /><br />A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.<br /><br />A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. !<br /><br />A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.<br /><br />A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.<br /><br />A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.<br /><br />A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.<br /><br />A snail can sleep for three years.<br /><br />Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.<br /><br />All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.<br /><br />Almonds are a member of the peach family.<br /><br />An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.<br /><br />Babies are bo rn without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.<br /><br />Butterflies taste with their feet.<br /><br />Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.<br />"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".<br /><br />February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.<br /><br />In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.<br /><br />If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.<br /><br />If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.<br /><br />It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.<br /><br />Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors<br /><br />Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.<br /><br />No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.<br /><br />On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building! is an American flag.<br /><br />Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.<br /><br />Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.<br /><br />Rubber ba! nds last longer when refrigerated.<br /><br />"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.<br /><br />The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.<br /><br />The cruise liner, QE2, mov es only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.<br /><br />The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.<br /><br />The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.<br /><br />The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.<br /><br />The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).<br /><br />There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.<br /><br />There are more chickens than people in the worl! d.<br /><br />There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous<br /><br />There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."<br /><br />There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.<br /><br />Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.<br /><br />TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.<br /><br />Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.<br /><br />Women blink nearly twice as much as men.<br /><br />Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.<br /><br /><br />.............Now you know everything :p
 

RetNav

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

LF, I don't know how to thank you for looking up and posting these essential facts. I don't know how I managed to live this long without knowing all of them... :D
 

gonfishn

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Same here Ladyfish..To think that I have went through life thinkn I know it all and found out I didn't..
 

JB

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Radar is also a palindrome. :D
 

SpinnerBait_Nut

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

otherwise it will digest itself.
And this is a bad thing how?<br />I have seen some that needed it.
 

dolluper

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

WE tried to sell Canada for 2 bucks and you didn't buy it that's why it's there?
 

AK_Chappy

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Originally posted by LadyFish:<br /> <br />If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.<br />
With the timing of lights up here. I have already met my quota. I'm just not gonna stop anymore. :D <br /><br />AK Chappy
 

rolmops

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Ladyfish,so what else is new??<br />JB, so is my daughter's name, Hannah.
 

cbnoodles

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Here are a couple more palindromes:<br /><br />"Madam, I'm Adam." - Adam, speaking to Eve<br /><br />"Able was I ere I saw Elba." - Napoleon Bonaparte
 

TilliamWe

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

That's all I got too, Ken<br /><br />So we may not "know everything" but we know one more thing than the person who put that list together! :p <br /><br />Oh and on a personal note, I have been meaning to say to you...<br /><br />(in my best Christopher Walken) I NEED more Cow Bell!<br /><br /> :D
 

briannh1234

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

Mythbusters busted the goldfish thing.<br />- Brian
 

samagee

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

I would have liked to see the person's face, when they were told to go shave the tiger to see if it's skin was striped as well.
 

roscoe

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Re: So you think you know everything huh....

I can bust the dragonfly thing. I had one in my garage for atleast 2 days.
 
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