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A little knowledge..

My Sister Sent me this and it made me chuckle so I figured I’d share… Who doesn’t like a little useless nonesense on a Saturday afternoon? 🙂

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 its tongue out.
  
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  

• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
  
• A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time — 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.
  
• All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
  
• 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.
  
• Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
  
• “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 a red light.
  
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  
• Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”
  
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  
• Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
  
• 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.
  
• Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye.”
  
• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand, “lollipop” with your right.
  
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  
• 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 characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
  
• The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
  
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
  
• 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’ and ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. (palindromes) –also radar
  
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  
• 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, a! nd hazardous.
  
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
  
• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: “indivisibility”.
  
• There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
  
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  
• Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  
• 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.
  

There,…..now you know everything

2 Comments to A little knowledge..

geno
December 14, 2003

OK! That was so out of control. But I read the whole dame thing!

Pete
December 14, 2003

LOL.. I know.. Kinda sucks ya in huh? ;).. (I’m evil – I admit it)