[Fwd: FW: ... So you think you know everything!]

WHOA, weird stuff!
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> SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
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> A dime has 118 ridges around
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> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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> A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
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> A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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> A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
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> A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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> A snail can sleep for three years.
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> Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
>dealer.
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> All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
>Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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> Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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> Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
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> Butterflies taste with their feet.
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> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have
>about 10.
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> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
>letters "mt".
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> February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
>to have a full moon.
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> In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been
>domesticated.
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> If the population of China walked past you, in single
>file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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> If you are an average American, in your whole life, you
>will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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> Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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> No word in the English language rhymes with month,
>orange, silver, or purple.
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> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
>Parliament building is an American flag.
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> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
>nose and ears never stop growing.
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> Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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> Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the
>left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
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> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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> The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each
>gallon of diesel that it burns.
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> The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by
>a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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> The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
>dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
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> The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
>completely solid.
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> The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same
>whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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> There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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> There are more chickens than people in the world.
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> There are only four words in the English language which
>end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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> There are two words in the English language that have
>all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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> There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables
>Vitamins.
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> Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
>the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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> Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
>dance.
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> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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> Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every
>two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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> .............Now you know everything
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Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles