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
” “Polish” and “polish”...”
Not to mention being the basis for a bad joke.
Hilliary Clinton is STILL not the president. (Snowflakes may not know that)
***Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.***
That’s funny. Wasn’t that the same thing that Obama’s maternal grandfather had on his business card in Hawaii or maybe Kansas? I’ve always been astounded that he could afford to send Obama to the Punahou School.
Nope, they live for many months. Must have meant "fruit flies".
Fun! But the one about the Canadian 2-dollar bill isn’t true. Their own flags are on their currency.
Covfefe is the only word that rhymes with Covfefe.
ML/NJ
I wondered about that one.
“Live goldfish have excellent memories. They learn to recognize faces. They get excited when they see the familiar face that feeds them.”
Our goldfish does the above quite obviously. It also swims toward me when I wave my fingers a certain way and I can “lead” it around the tank a bit by doing that.
Not according to the last doctor I asked about it.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
This seems highly suspect; it would mean the ship burns 10,000 gallons per mile ... 10 million gallons (a quarter-million barrels) for 1000 miles.
If you present a list of “facts” some of which are demonstrably false, it casts doubt on all the rest.
You cannot lick your elbow.
Polar bears can eat up to 86 penguins in a single sitting.
Movie trailers use to be shown after the movie, hence the term trailers.
Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. (Explains why Nancy Pelosi is so thin)
About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
The word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.” (So they were correct about Michelle Obama)
And finally....
The toothpaste “Colgate” in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself”
“You cannot lick your elbow.”
No, but I can lick my eyebrows.
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The Nazi party was a socialist party (the S in NSDAP stood for socialist). Therefore, the Nazi party was a left-wing organization.
Interesting, I didn’t know that Goldfish could type. You sound like one extremely offended, frustrated goldfish.
I’d love to see that! It sounds like a special fish.
I’ve watched videos of goldfish that have been taught to swim through plastic hoops in exchange for food. I wouldn’t have the patience to teach them such behavior, but they’re definitely capable of it.
I’m not a big fan of ignorance/misinformation. If those things have your support, that’s your choice.
Uh oh; now I’m “one extremely offended, frustrated” dragonfly:
‘A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.’
In fact:
‘A dragonfly has a life span of more than a year, but very little of that life is actually as an adult dragonfly. There are three stages of the dragonfly life cycle, the egg, the nymph, and the adult dragonfly. Most of the life cycle of a dragonfly is lived out in the nymph stage and you don’t see them at all, unless you are swimming underwater in a lake or pond with your eyes opened, of course.’
[The adult/winged phase of a dragonfly’s life cycle is typically ~two mos.]
http://www.dragonfly-site.com/dragonfly-life-cycle.html
A shake of a lamb’s tail is also a measurement of time.
I read that during the Manhattan project they came up with many ways to confuse spies and would be Turncoats.
Using jiffy and a shake of a lambs tail as units of time measurement must have really confused whoever because the secrets didn’t leak out until after the war.
“A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.”
And a quarter has 119.
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