2006-03-03 05:54:09 UTC
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> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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> A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
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> A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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> A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/ 100th of a second.
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> A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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> A snail can sleep for three years.
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> Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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> All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
> back of the $5 bill.
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> Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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> Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
> reaches 2 to 6 years of age! .
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> Butterflies taste with their feet.
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> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
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> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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> February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
> moon.
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> In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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> If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
> never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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> If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
> average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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> Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
> purple.
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> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
> building is an American flag.
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> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
> stop growing.
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> Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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> Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
> "lollipop" with your right.
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> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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> The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
> that it burns.
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> The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
> chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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> The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
> letter of the alphabet.
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> The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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> The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
> read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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> There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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> There are more chickens than people in the world.
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> There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
> tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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> There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
> order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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> There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
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> Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
> one row of the keyboard.
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> Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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> Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
> otherwise it will digest itself.
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> ............Now you know everything!
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