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so you 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 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. "Stewardesse" 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 QU2 only move siz inches to each 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 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... I think.....

Public Comments

I know nothing!
amazing
Interesting...
No one in this world that seems to be "KNOW EVERYTHING" person.. No computer can still store the informations that invented by human. And there is lots more... and it is for sure i even don't know your name :)
i knew three of them: the dreamt one the rubber band one the rhyming one but my god you caught me out that one about the chinese is realli cool and interesting thanks for sharing =]
Here's what I do know about your list - a lot of the facts are false or speculation. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. FALSE- Depends on species as to how many muscles move the ear. There are NONE in the ear itself. Only the outer part. http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/trivia.htm A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. WRONG- they can live up to seven years. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/dragonfly/Dragonflyprintout.shtml A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. False: http://nootropics.com/intelligence/smartfish.html A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. WRONG. Most sharks cannot 'blink' at all. Others roll their eyes forward for protection. http://www.sharkfoundation.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=68 A snail can sleep for three years. WHEN FORCED TO. http://www.birdnature.com/feb1899/hibernation2.html Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. SORT OF TRUE- in babies the patella is mostly cartilage it develops into bone at different rates in different children. Various Medical Sources. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. WRONG- Cats have far more, dogs do as well. http://www.nhm.org/exhibitions/dogs/communication/vocalizations.html February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. NOT HARDLY- http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bluemoon1.html Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. FALSE- he did invent the parachute, machine gun and what is believed to be a primitive precursor to our modern-day helicopter. http://www.dribbleglass.com/divinci/divinci.htm However, according to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexs.shtml scissors as we know them today have been known since antiquity. It is possible Da Vinci did contribute their perfection as he did many other items. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. FALSE: Orange rhymes with Sporange (a sac in which spores are produced). Silver rhymes with chilver (a ewe lamb). Purple with hirple (British--walk lamely or hobble) http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/hirple.html http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/t22.html If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. SPECULATION. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. SO? The cashiers at some fast food places can't do any of them. ************************************************* Some cool facts generated from http://burmeseu.com/ 1. You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows! 2. If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one. 3. For all you x-men lovers - the average person has enough iron to make a small nail 4. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person! 5. Astronauts cannot burp in space. 6. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. and etc.
wow thanks i really learnt alot!!! where did you find out all that information??
Wow, I feel so ignorant!
that was amazing..how did you know these things anyway?
I would have liked to have thought I knew everything! But now I see I have a lot to learn , thanx. Cheers!
i don't kno your middle name ah ha
What are you trying to say?
some of those are wrong like the goldfish thing, mtyhbusters tested it and trained goldfish to get through a maze. You may qant to check your facts.
Whoa..
a turtle can breathe through its butt. a ducks quack never echos, no one knows why. donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes all american presidents have worn glasses, but not all of them liked to be seen with them. Walt Disney was afraid of mice Barbera Millicent Roberts is Barbies full name. it is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs... the list goes on and on and on...