Posted on 07/17/2017 3:21:00 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Now you know everything
You’re killing me Smalls.
Good catch. And I’m glad you did because that dragon fly story was stuck in long term memory!
***If you present a list of “facts” some of which are demonstrably false, it casts doubt on all the rest.***
The “list” was emailed to me from a dear old friend. It was clearly not encyclopedic material. In fairness, it has generated a lot of FReepers to do research....which is great exercise for the mind and memory.
The common fruit fly lifespan is about 30 days at 29 °C (84 °F).
Although it doesn’t show up on X-rays, your baby does in fact have kneecaps. They’re just not bony kneecaps. At birth, these kneecaps are still cartilage, and remain so for a few years. So all those spills and falls your toddler is taking aren’t going to be knee-breakers, just sponge-compressors. By the time your child is anywhere from 3 to 5 years old, those cartilage plates will have fully ossified into big-kid kneecaps, made of real bone.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/musculoskeletal/babies-kneecaps1.htm
What's the urban legend? **That says that it is impossible to kiss your own elbow and if you do, it says you will turn into the opposite sex.** Now we know where all the ghey business came from .... if they didn't have elbows...none of this would be such a problem. ///s
“Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!”
Nonsense. Babies are born with kneecaps, but they are made of cartilage and do not fully harden into bone for several years.
“In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.”
Foxes were domesticated in Russia in an experiment started in 1959. There are other recent examples as well.
“If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.”
It would be a neat trick for them to copulate and deliver babies while walking in single file, wouldn’t it?
“Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.”
Scissors have been around since ancient Egypt and Sumeria. The modern type with the fulcrum in the middle was invented by the Romans around 100 AD, not by Da Vinci. Perhaps he refined the design, but he didn’t invent them.
“On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.”
No, it’s the “red ensign” flag, not the American flag.
Though it’s not a perfect list, it’s a fun and very interesting one. I notice that I’m not the only one who enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Spit my coffee out on that one. Has to be a joke in there somewhere :)
It is the mayfly that has a 24 hour lifespan.
Thanks for the link. Yes, that’s the US flag. I wonder how it happened? It’s hard to confuse the stars and stripes with a maple leaf.
I absolutely didn’t know that. You’re right, though:
Squashed mayfly can cause slippery road conditions, while motorists also had to battle poor visibility. Every year millions of mayflies hatch and sprout wings, but they only have a life expectancy of between 30 minutes to 24 hours. The mayfly life cycle lasts two years.
re: “Polish” and “polish”.
There is a manicure place nearby called the “Polish Spa” and I always mentally read it as the central European Slavic Nationality rather than the enamel that is painted upon the finger and toenails.
Every time.
Thank You! (By the way,I don’t think Canada has had a $2 bill for many years, since they replaced it with the ‘toonie’.)
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