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Here are some interesting facts?

A Dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A Cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A Crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue. A Dragonfly has a life span of just 24 hours. A Goldfish has a memory span of only 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 both their 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 $5.00 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An Ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until the child reaches the ages of two to six years. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cat's have over one hundred vocal sounds-Dog's only have about 10." "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. February 1865 is the only month in record 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 pasted 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 six months waiting at red lights. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinvi 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 OF2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.(i.e. 10,560 gals per mile - 1,056,000 per hundred miles) 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 'radar' - 'race-car' - 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read from 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 English language which end in -'hazardous'-'dous'- 'tremendous'-'horrendous'-and 'stupendous'. 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 Flintstone's Chewable Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin - not 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! . . . No Silver doen't rhyme with Shiver. It would have to be Shilver.

Public Comments

1. very interesting, but i think i read recently that the goldfish memory thing has been disproved, so you dont know everything yet, keep studying and report back to me
2. Thought I already knew everything! You go to the top of the class, while i hang my head in shame :(
3. Yeah, the goldfish one isn't actually true, that's correct. I'm sure everything else is though. Funny that you didn't state that "interesting" is something different for every person though...
4. well silver rhymes with shiver.