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Sep-1-2005 16:08


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 Capones'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 rese

Sep-2-2005 09:27

or cause you use the mouse with your right and you are just to lazy to type correctly
(like me: fastest 3 finger typer you'll meet ;)

Sep-2-2005 12:34

reda, you sound like my spouse, he too pecks out words using his index fingers. I timed him and he could type up to 25 words per minute, which was pretty good I thought.

Yes, I thought it was funny & very interesting too jojo. I love looking things up online, for there's always an abundance of information. What would we do without computers?

Sep-2-2005 12:44

The word 'love' meaning no points in tennis derives from the days of King Louis XIV, when the zero on the scoreboard was said to resemble an egg - l'oeuf.

Sep-2-2005 12:52

Did You Know #2


The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work Alaska

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness 28% (now get this...) The
percentage of North America that is wilderness 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven $6,400

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter Tom Sawyer.

Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history
Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs
-Alexander, the Great Diamonds - Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Sep-2-2005 12:53

Don't know what all these numbers are all about, oh well!

Sep-2-2005 13:10

Daru
look at the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. should be seeing a trend here. . . :)

Sep-2-2005 13:51

Daru:

1x1=1
11x11=121
111x111=12321

And so on.

Sep-2-2005 13:51

hate to be a killjoy, but dragonflies can live quite a long time by insect standards - 2 weeks to 2 months. Mayflies only live 24 hours in their adult form - hence the Order's name Ephemeroptera (or ephemeral winged ones....)

Both groups spend most of their lives in their immature (aqauatic forms). (more than anyone wanted to know, I expect...)

Sep-5-2005 09:30

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.

The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight.

Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.

Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.

The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.

According to hospital figures, dogs bite an average of 1 million Americans a year.

The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

It takes around 10 dump-truck loads of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant.

The notion that cats and dogs are natural enemies (suggested by the phrase,"fighting like cats and dogs") is overstated, if not simply false. Generally speaking, cats and dogs get along better than cats and cats or dogs and dogs.

The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

There's a "meow" in the middle of "homeowner."

According to a survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 53 percent of pet owners vacation or travel with their pets.

The Dalmatian breed of dog originates from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.

Surveys show that 62 percent of dog owners admit that their dog owns a sweater, wintercoat or raincoat.

Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F, which is why they don't immediately gulp down the half-eaten can of food from the refrigerator.

In 1987, cats overtook dogs as the number

Sep-5-2005 09:35

Gena and Jake, thanks!