pafret Loc: Northeast

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 snail can sleep for three years.

· A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

· 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 had 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!

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Big dog

Now if only I could remember it all.

Kazudy

I do belive that sliver rymes with silver.

pafret Loc: Northeast

As does quiver, shiver, river et. al..

Mike Easterday

I learned something interesting. Thanks!

badbobby Loc: texas

heck Paf
guess I didn't know much of anything
but on the subject of goldfish
they can do a hula dance out of water
but only for about 60 seconds
and only once

Y360AZ

There has many a February that has not had a full moon!

badbobby Loc: texas

ha
bet Paf didn't know that un
I'm really thrilled about what I learn on the internet
now if it could only tell me how to make this a better world-----

pafret Loc: Northeast

You are correct. I didn't know if it was one, two or a thousand. I assumed some astronomer had calculated that and found it to be true. You know what they say about assumptions!

Big dog

Hmm, guess maybe YOU may have lernt sompin new 2 ?

Y360AZ

Also, a jiffy is more like 1/60th of a second, not 1/100th.

Carol Kelly

Wrong!

Carol Kelly

Amen!

Carol Kelly

They do rhyme with sliver but not silver.