I had to share this with you all. A Board Sister posted it @ another MB I\'m member of and it\'s quite a read, worthy of sharing with others. (hint, hint!)
Enjoy! (http://www.imgmag.com/images/lyoness/EMOTICONS/sun_smiley.gif)
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. (http://www.imgmag.com/images/lyoness/MessagexGifs/Dragonfly.gif)
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 DI 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
Well, let\'s wait on the China one. If everyone was walking by me, how would they still have time to make love?
... Oh, I guess that question was just to show that they reproduce a lot and wasn\'t meant to be taken seriously. ::)
I got this at work about 2 weeks ago. Intersting stuff. Actually in our training classes we have the group do a memory/observation exercise, involving everyday items. Like a penny. They have to list everything that is on both sides of a penny, and no one ever gets them all. It just proves that most of us don\'t notice things until they are pointed out. I try to be as observant as possible, but we all get distrated by often times stupid things!!
Beatnik 8)
i sneezed wtih my eyes open before!
:o "Al Capone\'s business card said he was a used furniture dealer."
I\'m related to someone in Al Capone\'s Gang, Yeah He dissapeared, probably got some cemment tennis shoes.
My Business card says Senior Custodian, But I also weild Guitar, Bass (fretless) and a couple of Ukulele\'s.
oh yeah some pencils and painty brushs.. pretty pretty
Chris
Thanks Ocean,
Reading this was way too much fun, now I\'m trying to think of all the weird facts I might have heard that add to this list but now that "I know everything" should I bother?
One fact I can\'t remember the answer to is: What happens to the rubber that wears off our tires? I would guess that it is a big part of that black dust that you find near roads and freeways, yuck.
As for the line of Chinese, maybe they need to meet up with the flock of chickens that out number them? Or would this create two endless lines to walk by me?
I\'m glad I\'m not a butterfly, some things I\'ve walked on I\'d really rather not taste! Maybe that is why we see butterflys flying most of the time?
Anyway, I\'ve enjoyed all of the cool 8) facts and now I\'m off in a "jiffy" to sleep like a snail and hope I have a better memory than a goldfish so I don\'t buy a QE2 for my next mode of transportation.
Yeah, I have too much time on my hands right now.
See ya :-*
Quotei sneezed wtih my eyes open before!
OK, so prove it!
(This I\'d like to see, hope I don\'t sneeze and miss it)
HeeHeeHee
Deblee
QuoteSomebody had waaaaaaaay to much time on their hands!
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And Deblee, you are so funny! Reading your reply was as much fun as reading the post itself.
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So you think you know everything?
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Now you know everything
[glb]W-O-A-HHHH THAT\'S X-RAYED CHOCOLATE!!!!!! :o :P[/glb]