Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 My hubby sent this, thought you all might enjoy it. Janet - <kyles <dragonhealing Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:01 PM Trivia > A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. > A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. > A crocodile cannot stick out it's 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 it's 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 passed 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 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. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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