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Subject: Did you know? (Some of
these you have seen, but there are some new ones, too.)
A dime has 118 ridges around the
edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue
out.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24
hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of
three seconds.
A group of geese on the ground is a
gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
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.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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 England, the Speaker of the House
is not allowed to speak.
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 a red light.
In most advertisements, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10
It's impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the
scissors.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo
de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
Maine is the only state whose name
is just one syllable.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
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.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
Shakespeare invented the word
'assassination' and 'bump'
"Stewardesses" is the longest word
typed with only the left hand, "Lollipop" with your right.
The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does
56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were
three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The characters Bert and Ernie on
Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only
six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The giant squid has the largest eyes
in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the
English language is
screeched.
The microwave was invented after a
researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The only 15-letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
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' and '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 336 dimples on a
regulation golf ball.
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 is a word in the English
language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
There's no Betty Rubble in the
Flintstones Chewables.
Tigers have striped skin, not just
striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant
is grown in New Jersey.
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.
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