Did You Know?

Is This all True?  I have no idea, but its fun to think about


~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; lollipop" with your right.

~The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

~The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

~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.

 

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