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Pete44ru
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How many of these do you know ? ? :mrgreen:



An American 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 US 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 was the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon until February 2018.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction there.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red traffic 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.

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, QE II, 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 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.


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The tv show Mythbusters proved you can sneeze with your eyes open and your eyes won't pop out.
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A baby eel is an ylver. It rhymes with silver.

The microwave was invented when a U.S. Air Force radar technician was doing what they always did and walked in front of the dish to warm up and one time he had a Hershey bar in a pocket and it melted. My Mother's First Cousin Albert Vogel was on duty when it occurred. Each one of those technicians got cancer. Some of them died from it.

There is only one word in the English language which has 3 double letters in a row. Bookkeeper.
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Dont know about goldfish’s memory being 3seconds. I went on vacation fir 2 weeks, 30 seconds before I drove up the driveway the wife says they all swam to front of tank like usual just before I fed them. They didn’t react to her at all.

These facts also explain why women prefer cats over dogs! Todd
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