A Little Bit of History

[Daisy]

Think 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 end! s 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 languag! e 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!

[Oldbillplod]

Originally posted by Daisy If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction.

That was the one that amazed me the most.

[Island_Girl]

Facetious is one of my favorite and most used words.

[danah]

bet you don't know my middle name!?!?!?

[nealopp]

but... I've sneezed with my eyes open. After I heard that the first time, I tried it. And it works!

[danah]

Originally posted by nealopp
but... I've sneezed with my eyes open. After I heard that the first time, I tried it. And it works!

me too! when i heard it i tried but couldn't keep them open but the next time i used my fingers as stoppers and my sneeze sucked but it worked.

[Daisy]

AH AH AH AH AH CHOO no its better to close your eyes, much better sneeze )

[Zwitterion]

Aww crap, typed a (smartass) response for every fact, but was told too many smilies and lost them all when clicked on back button. :(

[Scruit]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

- How do they know this?



All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

- Not by a long shot. Only 26 are listed. Where is Ohio, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington et al? 5dollar.jpg Anyone else notice missing states?



In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

- Define domestication. How many people kept groundhogs as pets 4k years ago?



No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

- Unless it's a country song, then they'll just mispronounce another word and call it a rhyme.

[Jynkxxie]

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