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jarab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:38 PM
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For those who don't know everything
From a received e-mail ....

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.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; 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!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:41 PM
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1. Yeah...welll...
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.


I already knew that one!!!

;-)
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:48 PM
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2. Well that was fun!
Verrrry interesting ;) The last one I really didn't need to know, lol.
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:49 PM
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3. At least one of those "facts" is bs
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

re: "On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag."
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:51 PM
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4. Cough...cough...er ahem....
"On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag."

Canada doesn't have a two dollar bill, we have a coin. And years ago, when we did have the bill, the flag shown on the Parliament buildings was the Canadian flag of the time the picture was chosen...the Canadian ensign or red ensign....not the American flag.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:51 PM
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5. Never discount Chaos.
Edited on Fri Jul-25-03 11:56 PM by MissMarple
She can be such a bitch. Sorry for the language, I was paraphrasing Ian Malcolm. What I mean is, someone, somewhere, sometime...will find some of that INACCURATE.

:D

Good night guys, I'm going off to bed and read a little more of Harry Potter V.

Blessed Be.
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AnnabelLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:54 PM
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6. I think it's rather sad about dragonflies
Edited on Fri Jul-25-03 11:54 PM by AnnabelLee
I've always liked them; they're so pretty.:-(

Edited to fix emoticon
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:57 PM
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7. I wanna know
how you figure out the memory span of a goldfish.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-03 12:16 AM
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10. The only response I can think for that is...
hee..hee..hee. Although, theoretically, it can be measured.

:D

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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:58 PM
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8. Nice flag, sweertheart.
Edited on Sat Jul-26-03 12:01 AM by MissMarple
I'm turning my flag stamps upside down.

Argh...many apologies about the misspelling of sweetheart.
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AnnabelLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-03 12:11 AM
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9. I always turn my flag stamps upside down
And you can edit your subject line, if you are so inclined.:-)
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-03 12:38 AM
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13. I can? I've been gone for awhile.
And, I'm a bit technologically challenged. That's good to know. Thanks. We've had updates, and I'm very bad with the small print...unless I become more left brained. But that could be a bad thing, I would become more like Hermione and Professor McGonagall. Well,.. perhaps not such a bad thing. :D
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-03 12:30 AM
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11. What about "sporange"?
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-03 12:32 AM
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12. Tell me something I don't know
;-)
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