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Mr. Big
06-17-2004, 10:59 PM
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.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appea! r until the child reaches 2
to 6 years of age.

butterflies taste with their feet.

"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.

O! ur eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears nev er
stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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! :biggrin:

Maori_Legend
06-17-2004, 11:16 PM
i only new half of the stuf you said thanks solid :)

Hollis
06-17-2004, 11:51 PM
Hmm, pretty interesting.. Some of those things i never had a clue of... I used to eat flinestone vitamins, and i never noticed that betty wasn't in there..

Saijin_Ryu
06-18-2004, 04:28 AM
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Silver - Sliver, Purple - Turtle

;)

akuma_forever
06-18-2004, 07:02 AM
Interesting stuff...

MasterX05
06-18-2004, 10:38 AM
this reminds me of JACK JOHN MAGRIFF. My Cet teacher last year would always be telling us these crazy facts like this.

"It's imposible for any one to lick thier elbow"

"Most left hand people will die ofusing a right hand product"

Virtual Fighter
06-18-2004, 11:07 AM
bah, solid got them from a website!!! :angry:

:D

marvel911
06-18-2004, 03:15 PM
bah, solid got them from a website!!! :angry:

:D
I dont know..I got it in an email before...

but where it came from doesnt matter..

Mr. Big
06-18-2004, 04:10 PM
its off google search. my brother showed it to me years ago in a e-mail and now i couldnt find the printout. so i search it off google and decide, 'hey, i need to share sum wealth with u kids.'

dichelle
06-18-2004, 05:22 PM
i got yu, yu said none of the words rhyme with any other words in the dictionary: purple does ryhme with circle

akuma_forever
06-18-2004, 05:33 PM
Now that could be debatable. Since circle has that second ' c ', technically it might not rhyme with purple. Let the discussion begin!

Virtual Fighter
06-18-2004, 07:15 PM
purple, circle. totally different. it the C was a P, it would be cirple, and that would rhyme.

but, that ONLY word to rhyme with pruple, is nurple, as in the top part of your nipple. its a proven fact, look it up in a dictionary. (it better be a good one, not all of them have it in there)

orange rhymes with Door Hinge, which is a fraise not a word.

silver rhymes with quilver, which is the name of the back of a horses' tail.

bloodpack
06-18-2004, 08:48 PM
orange rhymes with Door Hinge, which is a fraise not a word.
phrase?

Maori_Legend
06-18-2004, 08:53 PM
this reminds me of JACK JOHN MAGRIFF. My Cet teacher last year would always be telling us these crazy facts like this.

"It's imposible for any one to lick thier elbow"

"Most left hand people will die ofusing a right hand product"
id have to dissagree there ive seen my mate do it he can pull his elbow out of his socket its hella stuffed up looking but he can do it

El Emo Caliente
06-18-2004, 09:00 PM
actually im not sure if someone already said this(because i didnt care to read thru it all) a goldfish doesnt have a memory of 3 seconds.

it was on mythbusters, they expiremented with a underwater maze for some goldfish. after a few days of testing the goldfish were able to remember which way to go to get food.

so thats more like an urban myth instead of a fact.