So You 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 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.

....................Now  you know everything! 

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