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
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
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.
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
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 Chewable 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.
More
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made
out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary
were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its
inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong
parents, daily.
10.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and
nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in
individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of
the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand
and draw with the other at the same time ...hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in
20. The name Wendy was made up for the
book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
21. It took Leonardo da Vinci 10 years to paint
Mona Lisa's lips.
22. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will
make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
23. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween"
was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
24. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to
make change for a dollar (good to know.)
25. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was
completely useless.)
26. The phrase "rule of thumb"
is derived from an old English law, which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (sign of
a true civilized society ... not.)
27. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
28. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to
eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the
same with apples! (Guess what I'm buying on my
next trip to the grocery store?)
29. Chewing gum while peeling onions will
keep you from crying!
30. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is
certified kosher.
31. Guinness Book of Records holds the
record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
32. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
And Even More
1. A female ferret
will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a
mate.
2. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
4. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2."
5. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a
small red car can be
seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
6. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
7. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on
War II killed the only elephant in the
8. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the
film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
9. The first CD pressed in the
the
10. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
11. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
12. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
13. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
14. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it
illegal for a
woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
15. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
....................Now
you know everything!
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