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By Paul at 9:12 am on Friday, November 10, 2006

Not sure how many af these are Factual…  but I ran across this and thought what the hell..  lets share it with you all….  Enjoy….  Now I will be doing some verifying of my own too….  HAHA…..

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

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.

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A snail can sleep for three years. 

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.

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

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.

“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 Chewable Vitamins.

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.

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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Comment by Adrien

November 14, 2006 @ 6:42 PM

When you read the dictionary to do your research for this one …….

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order “abstemious” and “facetious.”

You’ll have to let me know.

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Comment by Sharon

November 15, 2006 @ 7:36 PM

It’s a good thing there’s more chickens than humans in this world. …..

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