sotty Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 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 some people just have too much time on their hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaddyDub Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 NOW im a fountian of knowledge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Spelling and grammar next then is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotty Posted August 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 [ QUOTE ] NOW im a fountian of knowledge! [/ QUOTE ] Mines more like a dribble haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyPence Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Heres an interesting fact for you: In 1976 Rodrigo's 'Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomk Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 um chirchhill was born outside oxford in teh palace, i looked round it - dontth ink it was a ladys room ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 [ QUOTE ] The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. [/ QUOTE ] But what happened to his gonads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Same as what happens to yours when you drive past an airport! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sipperana Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 [ QUOTE ] A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. [/ QUOTE ] Really? [ QUOTE ] A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. [/ QUOTE ] Isn't blinking with one eye called winking? [ QUOTE ] If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. [/ QUOTE ] If the queue were that long, they'd have to reproduce in the queue. Uuuurrrgghhhh.... [ QUOTE ] A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. [/ QUOTE ] Really? [ QUOTE ] "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. [/ QUOTE ] Not the way I type [ QUOTE ] The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). [/ QUOTE ] Hardly a revelation [ QUOTE ] A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. [/ QUOTE ] Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagus Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 [ QUOTE ] SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. [/ QUOTE ] actually, most people type both words with their right index finger, but I digress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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