So you think you know everything?

[tlhdoc]

I received this in an email and thought I would pass it on.

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
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>A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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>A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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>A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
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>A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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>A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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>A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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>A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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>A snail can sleep for three years.
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>Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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>All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
>of the $5 bill.
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>Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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>Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2
>to 6 years of age.
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>Butterflies taste with their feet.
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>Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
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>"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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>February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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>In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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>If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
>never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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>If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average
>of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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>Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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>No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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>On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
>is an American flag.
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>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
>stop growing.
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>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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>Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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>"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
>"lollipop" with your right.
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>The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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>The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that
>it burns.
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>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
>chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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>The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
>of the alphabet.
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>The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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>The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
>left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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>There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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>There are more chickens than people in the world.
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>There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
>tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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>There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
>order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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>There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
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>Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one
>row of the keyboard.
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>Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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>Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise
>it will digest itself.
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>Now you know everything

[byrdr1]

Neat...
I will have to remember this info.. I can use it one day i am sure.
randy

[SkipP]

Hey!

I knew that!
 
LOL:D
 
Cool, thanks Tracy.

[dee106]

hey i checked out the five dollar bill and only saw 26 states, but thats a good one to use in a bar bet!
 
 
 how many state are on the five dollar bill?

[CAPEd CODger]

I have to comment on the goldfish memory thing.
On a past episode of "Mythbusters", they set up mazes for  goldfish to swim through to get to a food reward.
They showed that they "remembered" the way.
If their memory was only 3 seconds, they couldn't have been conditioned to "run the maze".
Anybody else see that episode besides my wife?

Interesting stuff.

[mike4947]

I saw it, and yes they busted the goldfish three second memory, there are several other "truths" in the list that are suspect if not outright wrong.
 
My favorite unknow fact: The QWERTY keyboard arrangement was developed to SLOW DOWN early typewriters.
Early typewriters would often have key jams from the speed. So an arrangement was found for the keyboard to slow them down causing less jams.