So you thought you knew everything?

[Smartypants]

A USA 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.

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 and "lollipop" with your 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 you know everything!

[Avalon]

HAHAHA..I pass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the only one I was anware of was the red light one. Thanks for that one; can't wait to spread the good cheer

[Smartypants]

I think the only ones I knew before I was e-mailed the list was that peaches were related to almonds, and that the "quick brown fox" sentence used all the letters.

My question is: When are the Chinese going to be able to procreate if they're walking all the time?

I'm signing off now -- I need to go put my rubber bands in the fridge...

[masterofNone]

see, if it were me, i'd have been more concerned with what the radar tube was doing to the meat in my body than with the melting of a chocolate bar in my pocket.

[Avalon]

The chocolate was the more obvious of the two. Dollar signs can blind you to the most important things

[Smartypants]

Originally posted by masterofNone
see, if it were me, i'd have been more concerned with what the radar tube was doing to the meat in my body than with the melting of a chocolate bar in my pocket.

And if you were Chinese, you might worry whether, after passing by the radar tube, you would be able to procreate so that you could do your part to keep the line moving!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Originally posted by Smartypants
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

New dynamite warning: DANGER! MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUT

[JesusTitties]

holy crap

[zenbabe]

So, is that like busting a nut?

[Smartypants]

LOL!!

[Frieda]

i can sneeze with my eyes open

[trisherina]

Hot dang, so that's what my stomach is doing!

Three out of four non-rhyming words are colours? No wonder so many poets are suicidal.

(runs off to check two dollar bill)

[melissa]

I learned so much today!!

[madasacutsnake]

My question is: When are the Chinese going to be able to procreate if they're walking all the time?

China is one of the most populous coutries in the world. Apparently, we're doing it wrong.

[Magpie]

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

WTF??? I've had three of these things, why haven't I ever known this?

"Women blink nearly twice as much as men."

That's because men stare more.