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
Posted by Steve Racz (Member # 4376) on :
Todd,
Very interesting!
I'm not sure about "dreamt" though. I seem to remember that i "camt" out in my back yard as a kid...
Thanks, Steve
[ May 25, 2004, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: Steve Racz ]
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
LOL Steve....I was a little skeptical of the eyes being full size as a newborn....my daughter has beautiful, large eyes....and I am positive they weren't that size at birth....
Posted by Mike Pulskamp (Member # 3475) on :
You can use each letter of Ronald Wilson Reagan's name and spell "Insane anglo warlord" and each of his three names has six letters. 666 How's that for too much time on your hands?
BTW "Barn" is a measurement of area. It's very small, used by quantum mechanics. So hitting the side of a barn might be harder than you think.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
. . . here's one more Todd,
~Man really did walk on the Moon.
LOL, finish one inter'stin' post 'for you start anuther!!!! Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I don’t intend to come across as a “know it all” but I wish to dispute a couple of these statements.
February, 1865 enjoyed a full moon on the 10th of the month. Since the moon’s cycle is approx. 29.53 days, a number of Februarys throughout history missed out on a full moon. February 1961 and 1999 are examples. There are plenty more.
The QE2, from info on their own website, travels 50' per gallon at maximum cruise of 28.5 knots (those are Imperial gallons–it would be 40' in US gallons) and at service speed of 20 knots, makes 2.5 times the economy. Therefore, if it took a gallon to go 6", over 30 million gallons would be required to make a typical trans Atlantic crossing. The weight of the fuel alone would be triple the carrying capacity of the ship.
I guess this proves the fact that 43.61% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Edited typo. I punched in 1965 instead of 1865.
[ May 25, 2004, 05:36 PM: Message edited by: David Harding ]
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
Goldfish have memories, as "proven" on Myth Busters (Discovery Channel) by teaching goldfish to run a maze to reach their food.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I guess Leonardo da Vinci's mom was the first in history to shout: "Don't run with those, you'll put your eye out!"
Posted by David O'Hanlon (Member # 2754) on :
"Quick blowing zephyrs vex daft Tom" is the shortest true sentence that can be made up using all letters of the alphabet.
[ May 25, 2004, 11:01 PM: Message edited by: David O'Hanlon ]
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
Yeah, I knew all that stuff. Except the one about the Moon. Why would anybody want to step on Stefanie Harris?
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
and... sorry... but you can sneeze with your eyes open, though it takes a bit of effort!
Posted by Dennis Veenema (Member # 833) on :
no the american flag is not flying over parliment on the old two dollar bill(we have a $2 coin now)
and it's not flying on the $5 or $10 bills either
on the two and the ten it's the red ensign, Canada's flag until 1965 when it was replaced with the maple leaf
it's the maple leaf flying on the $5
it's amazing what some people will believe!
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
I guess that proves you can't believe everything you're told. Ponder everything...question everything...and come to a conclusion.
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
I beg to differ with the part about newborn's knee caps. I checked my babies out head to toe, and they did have wee little kneecaps, about the size of an Irish penny. (that's smaller than one of our dimes) And I type equally well with both hands, using my 2 index fingers at about the same rate! Love...Jill
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