So You Think You Know Everything?

[QuantumBeam]

What About these things?...

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with
your left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet you're
going to check this out.)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you
doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to
"do" this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous (You're not doubting this,
are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say
. a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. (but who really cares?)
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what
my memory span is)

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. (I know some people that could do this
too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.
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, 8 abreast, 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.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
is an American flag.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


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. (Good thing he did that)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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.
THERE! ... Now you know everything!

:-D

[simon]

nice

[katherine]

Nice read

[stevey]

think you'll find one of them is wrong

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what
my memory span is)

The Mad Scientist notes that if you tap on the tank before feeding your goldfish every day, the goldfish will eventually learn to look for food immediately after the tank-tapping. This kind of "classical conditioning" indicates goldfish have some memory.

Dr. Karl seconds that emotion, citing anecdotes of goldfish responding happily to their owner's faces, while hiding in their tiny castles when confronted with strangers. And while goldfish were domesticated in China roughly a thousand years ago, they still swim in schools, and thus have some learned social behavior.

The MythBusters TV show taught some goldfish to swim through a maze, noting that their time got better on each successive run

[paulc]

interesting read..

[khuldun]

Interesting facts, i hope more will follow

[cooljeba]

In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark had killed in the past 100 years.
Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. Chocolate contains a chemical theo bromine, which is poisonous to dogs.
Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green.
dog has more than 105 expressions and most of them using their ears.
Lions and tigers belong to the cat family and not the other way around.
A new born baby has a tearless cry.
A snail can move over a sharp blade without hurting itself.

All the planets of our solar system are named after the Roman mythology.
Sun is actually a mid sized star.
When a supernovae explosion occurs it lights the complete space for couple of days.
A star never blinks.
The statue of liberty was gifted to US by France.
Pyramids are the largest graveyard ever built.
Orange is the only object that has taken it's name from a colour.
A shark's body is covered with thousands of small teeth.
A great white shark can smell a drop of blood from almost 1.5 miles away.
A crocodile has so many sharp teeth but it can't chew it's food.
A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.
The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hound.
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.
Rodney Fox an Australian who was attacked by a great white shark, had to take 462 stitches all over his body.
"Now he is serving as the president of great white fan club."
A person blind by birth hears only sounds in his dreams.
Mr. Jeffries. The dog's ears are 11.5 inches long and are insured for $47,800.
Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus.

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

[netdevil]

Thanks.

Great info here.

[thewird]

exemt ends in "mt"

thewird