-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. T-here 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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I hope that was a cut and paste, if not that's a lot of typing!
Interesting, how many of them will I remember?
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quote:Originally posted by STONES_SS: Really, only 26 states are listed at the top of a 5 dollar bill.
I only counted 26 too. One other thing I noticed while looking at it..."five dollars" is repeated along the vertical sides on the front. I wonder what size font that is?
Have you guys all seen the little owl on the front of the $1 bill? Hint: It's near the "1" on the top right.
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