Thread: So you think you know everything?. .......

Guys I can't speak for the validity of most of this stuff, except for possibly the crocodile and the QE2 one. So if it's not quite correct..........please enlighten me further.



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.. ......... .

Originally Posted by johnmw1

.... So if it's not quite correct..........please enlighten me further.



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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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Except, of course, GW!..




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-whatever

-Lou

Originally Posted by scarface

Except, of course, GW!..




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-whatever

-Lou

And he's still a little wild!

This thing is oooooold. Most of these I actually already knew.

Originally Posted by Berticus

This thing is oooooold. Most of these I actually already knew.

Elephant stamp for you... straight to the head of the class...

Greg Frazer

Originally Posted by johnmw1

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Ahem!

Originally Posted by johnmw1

............ .Now you know everything.. ......... .

Even if some of it may be wrong. Welcome to my world

X

Originally Posted by johnmw1

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

True. The linux kernel uses jiffies.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Might be true. My daughter doesn't seem to have them, though they might be too small to notice.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

True. This has to do with the pressure behind your eyes.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

In English maybe. In Dutch that would be mai-ne

Originally Posted by johnmw1

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

Have heard this one.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

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

True.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Haven't checked.

Originally Posted by johnmw1

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes) .

Duh. years ago there was a national competition to make the longest sentence that you could read from left to right and right to left. There was one with 8 or 9 words that was a palindrome.
There was another with 20 words that was no palindrome, but had 2 different meanings, based on the direction.

Originally Posted by xman

Ahem!


Even if some of it may be wrong. Welcome to my world

X

Canada has Money???? I just thought all that stuff came from Monopoly games.

What about the Purple Nurple?

Silver - chilver.