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ShadowPenguin
August 26th, 2004, 10:21 AM
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 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.

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 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 :p

Bluestreak
August 26th, 2004, 10:34 AM
Some interesting facts, if they're all true. I don't know about the rest of them, but the human eye is 60% of its adult size at birth. It's an old wives' tale that eyes are full size at birth.

tashimarie
August 26th, 2004, 11:05 AM
im not sure how much of that i believe LOL but it is interesting....and did you know that a pigs orgasm lasts 27 minutes? now you know everything :lol:

(um im not sure how accurate that is, i learned it yesterday on another message boards lol)

badgolfer
August 26th, 2004, 11:38 AM
I saw an episode on myth buster where they discounted that goldfish have three second memories. they made them go through a series of holes in the tank to get to thier food. the fish would be able to relatively quickly find the food day after day.

tashimarie
August 26th, 2004, 11:46 AM
i seen that myth busters!

ShadowPenguin
August 26th, 2004, 12:10 PM
man i dont know if ANY of that junk is true...i just got that in a foward and it made me laugh :)

tashimarie
August 26th, 2004, 12:13 PM
man i dont know if ANY of that junk is true...i just got that in a foward and it made me laugh :)



:lol: :lol: i'm tempted to look it up!

and i didnt even think 'dreamt' was a real word.....maybe im just illiterate lol

PeteBDawg
August 26th, 2004, 02:20 PM
I saw an episode on myth buster where they discounted that goldfish have three second memories. they made them go through a series of holes in the tank to get to thier food. the fish would be able to relatively quickly find the food day after day.

Take THAT, Ani DiFranco!!

turing
August 26th, 2004, 03:30 PM
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

This is a myth: http://www.indefual.net/canada/myths/

ThatOldGuy
August 26th, 2004, 03:37 PM
Very interesting. I'll be thinking about some of those for a while. I do think they recently started making Betty Rubble vitamins.

Proctorjc
August 26th, 2004, 11:09 PM
About the Canadian $2 bill... My grandpa had a bunch lying around his house since way long ago... While crossing the border with my mom, he nearly spent them on the toll. It was a real close call, but she managed to rescue them. :D :claphigh:


Jeff. Pointless post #325.

jaz75
August 26th, 2004, 11:24 PM
im not sure how much of that i believe LOL but it is interesting....and did you know that a pigs orgasm lasts 27 minutes? now you know everything :lol:

(um im not sure how accurate that is, i learned it yesterday on another message boards lol)

How the hell did they find THAT out? hahaha. :eek:

jtelling
August 27th, 2004, 04:15 AM
I love snopes.com ...

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

pepito33
August 27th, 2004, 07:06 AM
How the hell did they find THAT out? hahaha. :eek:

There are pig semen banks, and (disgusting as it may be) there are people whose job is to make up for the poor (or lucky :lol: ) pigs' lack of hands :d_eek:

On the docummentary I saw ( :d_frown: ) the thing was faster than 27 minutes, though.

EDIT: I suddenly realised: ignorance is bliss.

tashimarie
August 27th, 2004, 09:05 AM
:lol: :lol: like i said, i read it on another message board......but now you know the answer....as disturbing as it may be :lol: