In case you thought you knew everything...

jfulcer

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1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver
or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5 bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous"; tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de NuNuestra Senora la Reina
de Los Angeles de Porciuncula"
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
 
You learn something new every day. :) Thanks.

#4 is interesting. I don't know if my left hand types more, but my right hand is faster. I make a lot of typos because of that.
 

I would bet that some of these might help stumped Riddlers :p
 
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

I always intend to check this out when I'm in Canada and I always forget.

Very interesting :)
 
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That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing it! :)
 
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.


Great! Now I have to keep DS away from dynamite too? :rolleyes: ;)
 
Originally posted by nativetxn
I always intend to check this out when I'm in Canada and I always forget.

Very interesting :)


Katholyn, You might have a hard time confirming that Canadian two dollar bill. Maybe the other provinces have it but I was in and out of Montreal for 4 months (mostly in) . The smallest "bill" I ever saw was the 5$. One and two dollar were all coins.

Servers in the restaurants hated it. They always had double handfuls of coins just to make change.
 
I've inherited my dad's ability to actively seek and memorize useless trivia. His best source was restaurant placemats. Thanks for adding to my databank.

Did you know that Paul Winchell was the original voice of Tigger?
 
Originally posted by FergieTCat
I've inherited my dad's ability to actively seek and memorize useless trivia. His best source was restaurant placemats. Thanks for adding to my databank.

Your dad's name wasn't Cliff was it? Did he hang around the Cheers bar a lot? ;)
 
just what my DH needs...more "useless kernals of knowledge"
He'll love it!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by jfulcer
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

I could just hear my MIL if she found these n my fridge.:p :rolleyes:
 

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