do u know everything?
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do u know everything?
I found this pretty damn interesting...but i'm also easily ammused.
> 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; 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 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.
......................NOW 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; 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 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.
......................NOW you know everything!
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From: York PA
Originally posted by EriksShadow
A pigs orgasm lasts for thirty minutes.. and dolphins are the only creature besides humans to have sex for pleasure.
A pigs orgasm lasts for thirty minutes.. and dolphins are the only creature besides humans to have sex for pleasure.
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Originally posted by tirod˛slc
the left hand types more than right i understand cause for me, it hits the spacebar the most lol
the left hand types more than right i understand cause for me, it hits the spacebar the most lol
