06-06-2006, 08:35 AM
after reading this you will wonder how you ever made
it without knowing all of these facts.
>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.
>Stewardesses is the longest word typed with
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.
>coke used to be green.
> the word **** actually means "Fornication Under the Consent of the King"
>cat pee glows under a black light.
> the phrase "mind your P's and Q's" comes from the 1800 when the men in irish pubs would get too rough the bartenders would say "mind your Pints and Quarts"
>its impossiable to lick your elbow.
it without knowing all of these facts.
>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.
>Stewardesses is the longest word typed with
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.
>coke used to be green.
> the word **** actually means "Fornication Under the Consent of the King"
>cat pee glows under a black light.
> the phrase "mind your P's and Q's" comes from the 1800 when the men in irish pubs would get too rough the bartenders would say "mind your Pints and Quarts"
>its impossiable to lick your elbow.