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Posted by blkragss02 (Member # 1801) on 15 October, 2003 08:51 PM:
 
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; 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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Posted by BadRag (Member # 1566) on 15 October, 2003 09:09 PM:
 
Way too much info...but very cool

BadRag
 

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Posted by NATESS (Member # 982) on 16 October, 2003 12:17 AM:
 
some of those facts are very interesting. i did know some of them, but definitely not all. thanks
 

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Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on 16 October, 2003 05:11 AM:
 
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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Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on 16 October, 2003 06:57 AM:
 

 

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Posted by helloween (Member # 1506) on 16 October, 2003 10:39 PM:
 
I can't belive i took the time to read that.
 

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Posted by STONES_SS (Member # 1694) on 17 October, 2003 08:00 AM:
 
Really, only 26 states are listed at the top of a 5 dollar bill.
 

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Posted by Xsta Z 28 (Member # 740) on 17 October, 2003 12:06 PM:
 
I b smarter now . . . .
 

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Posted by 02Hawk805 (Member # 2104) on 17 October, 2003 12:28 PM:
 

quote:

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Originally posted by STONES_SS:
Really, only 26 states are listed at the top of a 5 dollar bill.

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