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NOTE: i thought i posted this topic here a while back, but i cant find it so here it goes....
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. 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 the 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. |
Now I learn something :p
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Actually good info... :buttrock: It's all true..I actually looked it up just now..lol :cheesy: |
thats what shcool is for but they just dont teach this stuff at school anymore..you have to figure it out for yourslef... ???
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<span style='font-family:tahoma'>I was going to try sneezing with my eyes open, but since you told me my eyes will pop out; changed my mine. This is come fasinating stuff. I hope there more coming. And 293 ways to make change for a dollar... I've only used 15 so far. HEH.</span>
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Wow, I never knew most of that....the single file China thing is just...wow...but if they were walking in a line how would they have to time to actually have babies...How would they "do it" standing up and moving....maybe i'm putting too much thought into this...
I wonder why woman blink more than men? Oh and Urkel ryhmes with purple...but I guess it's not a "real" word. I've also heard of people who have sneezed with their eyes open and their eyes flew out their sockets...which I guess is possible....since you can easily lose an eye. And what about ppl without eyelids? Anyways, where did you find all this? |
let me add that the most commonly words used in english to not ryhme with purple or orange :D
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This was a good topic. Not that i'm gonna show you were wrong. I'm just doing this for myself.
I knew that: A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.(Saw that on TV a yr ago or so) It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (A feidn told me that a while back) The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read (eventhoguth racear is ometiimes spelled "race car") There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. (My mom gave me those when i was little. I always wanted to know who i got) Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. (From what i remember, tigers and cheeatahs don't have fur) So that makes 4/45. LOL. I'm getting there. This topic is handy, and you can always learn new things. :biggrin: |
wanna know a few more?
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Pearls melt in vinegar. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton. |
[color=#728FCE][color=RoyalBlue]<span style='font-family:tahoma'>Here are some others:
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The average life span of an umbrella is under two years. One googol written out is: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000. (100 zeros) The telephone |
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