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pygmalion
08-06-2004, 10:07 AM
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 :wink:

Sagitta
08-06-2004, 10:14 AM
So you think you know everything?

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.






.............Now you know everything :wink:

And I thought that all those buutifuul ladies were batting their eyelids at me. Come hither they were saying, and so I thought! :cry:

peachexploration
08-11-2004, 08:20 PM
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. Goldfish are working in my office? :shock:

A snail can sleep for three years. Lucky devil. :?

Almonds are a member of the peach family. No wonder they're a good combination in recipes. :)

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. They must not know about Interstate 4. :?

There are more chickens than people in the world. Well, that explains them crossing the road, they're out of room. :lol:

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Why of course, we invented the flirtacious eye flutter. :wink:

Sagitta
08-12-2004, 11:28 AM
Do I think I know everything? I know I do. :wink: :lol:

Vince A
08-12-2004, 05:20 PM
Do I think I know everything? I know I do. :wink: :lol:
I knew that!!!!!!!!!!!

Pacion
08-12-2004, 05:38 PM
A snail can sleep for three years. Lucky devil. :?

:lol: Looks like no IRU or ERC for the snail then :wink:

swinginstyle
08-13-2004, 04:27 AM
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

A dance? Now, that rules over everything else.

pygmalion
08-13-2004, 08:47 AM
Good point. I wonder what sort of dance. Hmm. :roll: :lol:

cocodrilo
08-13-2004, 08:59 AM
I used that for an ESL(English as a Second Language) class about 2 years ago. After having to translate more than half of it, the students were roaring! :lol: (or at least in awe!) :shock:

cocodrilo
08-13-2004, 09:12 AM
WOW! I just unearthed the lesson I gave- here are some of the ones on my list that were not mentioned on Pygmalion's list;

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous";
tremendous, hazardous, stupendous and horrendous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The characters Ernie & Bert (from Sesame Street)were named after the Bert the cop and Ernie the the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube & a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

:shock: