so...you think you know everything?

natty41

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And you thought that you knew it all! ok I just got this in an email, and it really brightened my day (cuz it's really dreary and rainy here). I laughed so hard reading these! So I just thought I'd share! :)

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 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.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only three words in the English language that start with dw; dwindle, dwarf and dwell

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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 :hyper:
 
Thank you for the knowledge! I was only aware of a few of those, now I'll feel smarter for the day. :D
 
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

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

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


Just thought i'd add a few more that i have
 
The average person's hair grows a combined 55,000 inches for months. (Each hairs length put together)

The average lfe span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.

One person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

The average person has a total of 6 lbs of skin.

The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

Snakes' fangs fold inward when they close their mouths so they don't bite themselves.

For nightvision like an owls, you'd need to have eyes the size of a grapefruit.

An eyelash lives for about 150 days before it falls out.

More than half of North Americans lose their TV remote between 1-5 times a week.

The average "pouring" speed of Heinz ketchup from the bottle: 0.003 mph.

The biggest brain: sperm whale (20 lbs)

In Atlanta, it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

Woodpecker's heads are filled with air pocketsthat cushion their head bones.

Fastest kitchen table top bacteria speed: 0.0001 mph

Most cats are left handed (or pawed)

250 people have fallen off the leaning tower of Pisa.

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

In Japan, it is illegal to buy or eat rice grown in another country.

There are more donut shops per capita in Canada than any other country.

Next to elephants, draft horses are the strongest animals in the world.

There are at least 2 golf balls sitting on the moon.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

North American oysters do not make pearls of any kind.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in just 24 hours.

Strabismus: when a person's eyes go 2 different directions at once.

an eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

Illinois Avenue: the most landed-on square in Monopoly.

Bones are 5 times stronger than steel.
 

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

Scientist John Harvey owns Einstein's brain. Harvey was a pathologist at a small hospital in Princeton, NJ, when Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. Harvey performed the autopsy, determined Einstein died of natural causes, and took the brain home with him.

Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.

The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.

All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. Most of it is paper.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
 
I know I posted a lot of facts in my previous post, but I just found a few more really interesting ones:

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.

From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

(I know that the last one is a bit outdated, but we all know that Reagan died of natural causes, so it is possible that he did break the "curse." However, did someone attempt to assasinate him, or maybe I'm thinking of someone else?)
 
Yes someone did attempt to assassinate Regan, but failed. I'm not sure of the date or year though. That's kind of creepy...
 
I know this one is pretty well known, but i'm going to say it anyway....

it's impossible to lick your elbow :D (lol, I love it!)
 
Originally posted by doryRocks721
The average person's hair grows a combined 55,000 inches for months. (Each hairs length put together) etc.



I knew all a these b/c they're in my assignment book!
 
I like all the facts
I already knew the elbow one though and ever since I heard it I of course try to lick it.
 
Originally posted by Arielfn93
I like all the facts
I already knew the elbow one though and ever since I heard it I of course try to lick it.

I can lick it.:teeth: ::yes::
 
Originally posted by natty41
I know this one is pretty well known, but i'm going to say it anyway....

it's impossible to lick your elbow :D (lol, I love it!)

Not if you have double joints! Trust me. I can too kevin!:p
 


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