STILL think you know everything????

binny

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There will be a quiz....you get 2 minutes to memorize everything you can
and
> then ....then impress your friends during cocktail hour
>
>
> Think you know it all?
>
> 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 "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.
> 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;
lollipop"
> with your right.
> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
> The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were
> three gifts.
> 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 on only
> 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!
>





Im not so sure about the no kneecap thing thats just plain strange! :)



and > If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
> average of 6 months waiting at red lights


if you have young children who have to go the bathroom DOUBLE that!! ;)
 
> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

That's because cats are supurrior to doggies ;)
 
Actually Betty did finally make it into Flintstones Chewable Vitamins...it's not until recently that she made it though...
 
OK I just went and looked at a Canadian 2 Dollar bill that I have and thats not true. Its a Canadian Flag.

Want to know the funny part? This was sent to me by VERY Canadian MIL lol

Wonder if she even read it. She owuld have been APPALLED!!! lol

She has thing about the US lol.
 

I still don't think it's possible for your eyes to be the same size from birth. Babies eyes are just so small!

And I have tried to sneeze with my eyes open before...I just can't do it.
 


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