So you think you know everything?

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I got this email. "So you think you know everything" makes 45 claims of fact. Maybe they're all true, maybe not. Anyone want to verify? :bounce:

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 fullmoon.

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.
 
LOL! Sometimes, I can relate to the goldfish memory!

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2...
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Sometimes, I can relate to the goldfish memory! LOL!:p
 
The quick brown fox....


I knew this to be true because I had computer class starting in first grade and we had to type this now annoying sentence over and over without looking at the key board. Teaching us to type!



Edited to add: palindrome - Bob and Anna fit into this catagory too!
 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
This one is false, a baby is born with eyes that are 2/3 the size of adults. They grow extremely slowly, if they didn't, they would be blind.

Ok, now I feel like a cheap Cliff Clayven wannabe...
 
Originally posted by poohandwendy
This one is false, a baby is born with eyes that are 2/3 the size of adults. They grow extremely slowly, if they didn't, they would be blind.

Ok, now I feel like a cheap Cliff Clayven wannabe...


Hmmm, I remember learning that the eyeballs are the same size, but the size of the iris grows as baby grows. if you look closely at a baby's eyes, you can see the iris underneath the white part of the eye.

But, then again, I have the memory of a goldfish, so what do I know! ;)
 
I just think whom ever sat down and figured out the typewriter stuff had too much time on thier hands! :)

Thanks for the interesting facts!
 
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament

Nope! :) It's the official Canadian flag at the time.

And I know babies don't have kneecaps. I checked!
 
Hmmm, I remember learning that the eyeballs are the same size, but the size of the iris grows as baby grows. if you look closely at a baby's eyes, you can see the iris underneath the white part of the eye.

Seriously, it's true...they are only 2/3 the size of adults:

How and When Do a Baby’s Eyes Develop?
The eyes begin developing two weeks after conception. Over the next four weeks all the major eye structures form. During this time the eye is particularly vulnerable to injury. For example, if the mother takes drugs or becomes infected with German measles, the eye can be malformed or damaged. During the last seven months of pregnancy the eye continue to grow and mature, and the nerve that connects the eye to the brain (optic nerve) is formed.

At birth a baby’s eye is about 75 percent of the size of an adult eye. During the first two years of life, the optic nerve, visual function and internal eye structures continue to develop.


http://www.uic.edu/com/eye/LearningAboutVision/EyeFacts/BabyEyes.htm
 
I didn't know that about dragonflies. I saw 4 or 5 outside my house today and though about how pretty they are.
 
Could you imagine if baby's eyes were as big as ours when they were born? Oh my! Some scary looking little things! Or just scared! HA! :laughing:
 
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
False. Some can even live 7 years. http://www.pnl.gov/pals/resource_cards/Dragonflies.stm
http://www.cat1234.com/id174.htm

A snail can sleep for three years.
I looked through every snail infosite I could find and none mentioned this at all. All said they can hibernate through the winter but none mentioned sleeping more than a few weeks.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
not impossible but difficult

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
False. Jean-Claude Margueron of Emar in Fourteenth Century BC invented Scissors. Early scissors have been found in ancient Egyptian ruins. These early scissors were made from one piece of metal (unlike modern scissors, which are made from two cross-blades which pivot around a fulcrum). Modern cross-bladed scissors were invented in ancient Rome (roughly 100 A.D.). Early scissors were used by clothes makers and barbers. Scissors were not in common use until much later, in the 1500's (in Europe).

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
True but most animals have colored skin, even dalmatians and zebras

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
False. http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp
 
Originally posted by dmadman43
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

And that is called a Pangrams. If you use each letter only once to make a sentence consisting 26 letters, it's called a perfect pangram. Example of a perfect pangram:

Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.

:scratchin
 
Well, actually, babies do have knee caps.....

Newborns do have kneecaps. Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don’t show up on x-ray very well because they’re not ossified, or bony. At this point in life, the kneecaps are made of a cartilaginous material. The growth centers surrounding the kneecap form late in developmental life in utero and may not appear until just before or just after the infant is born. Remember, infants are a work in progress. The potential for linear bone growth may continue until the late teens or early twenties. Although all the precursor tissues for the major bones are present at or immediately after birth, centers of ossification (where bone is laid down) continue to develop throughout childhood and beyond. For instance, the head of the femur appears at four months, the patella, or kneecap, starts showing signs of ossification at about 3 years in females and 4-5 years of age in males. Parts of the pelvic girdle (hips) don’t appear ossified until adolescence with the tubercle of the pubis not appearing until 18-20 years of age
 
There is no Betty vitamin
there is 293 ways to make change, if you count the dollar coin
Niagra Falls has never completly froze
 
Originally posted by poohandwendy
Seriously, it's true...they are only 2/3 the size of adults:

...
At birth a baby’s eye is about 75 percent of the size of an adult eye.



So which is it?
 
Originally posted by dmadman43
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Well that's not very nice.
 
She doesn't play well with others.
 
Originally posted by phamton

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
not impossible but difficult
Really it just depends on how "hard" you sneeze... I am a "hamster sneezer" and over half the time my eyes are open :)
 












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