Think you know everything?

Budman

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Think you know everything?

Think Again!

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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. (this is true i looked, but you need a magnafing glass, on the new $5 bills.)

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 more than you did.








 

azazyel

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
/waits for snopes link debunking most of this crap...

Some of them are true unfortunately I don't know which ones are not. Any Canadians here with a 2 dollar bill handy?
 

Bootprint

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Did you know some of those are wrong?


/On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag. /
wrong, link and
another
 

puffff

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Originally posted by: Budman

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

And they say a sign that someone is lying is excessive blinking... makes sense...
 

Vic

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Canada no longer has a paper 2-dollar bill, having replaced it with a 2-dollar coin.
 

GagHalfrunt

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
/waits for snopes link debunking most of this crap...


Who's got the time to research that many? Off the top of my head I know the ones about the goldfish memory, the American flag and DaVinci inventing scissors are wrong.
 

Bootprint

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Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Originally posted by: Budman

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

:roll:

5 year olds dont have kneecaps....lol

link. Yep, they have kneecaps, just not hard bone.
 

jhu

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Oct 10, 1999
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actually, you can force your eyes open while sneezing, just not widely open.