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
I used to have a turtle who knew the sound of my feet when I would walk up the stairs at a certain time every day, after work. He knew he’d get fed, and would jump off his rock and swim around, with his face against the glass. At other times of day, he’d just stay on his rock despite my weight coming up the stairs.
I have a little sparrow girl now, who chatters every time I walk past the door to her room. She doesn’t chatter when my husband walks by that door.
They “know” you in more ways than just through sight - they know your footprints and vibrations; like a horse senses when its rider turns his head to look left or right...
Funny! But isn’t it amazing!!??
An old boss of mine had some health issues; but after 20 years he went to get his flying license. He got started on it, but with the regulation manual at 4-inches thick compared to the 1/2-inch he had flown with, he quickly realized that at 72-years old it wasn’t going to be feasible.
His son got him Microsoft Flight or whatever - and he would spend hours doing that. He would fly old routes that he had done in the past - he loved it.
“And if I have to go to the bathroom - I just hit the pause button and don’t need to worry about it. And I can even fly under the Columbia River Bridge and not get in trouble for it!”
LOL!
But it IS amazing. Ever since the Internet came along - and even before that - people were always saying that the world was getting ‘smaller’ all the time.
To me, the world just gets bigger, every day! I see so many things, encounter so many people, and LEARN so much more, than anyone in my position could ever have done 20 or 30 years ago.
I have critters and people to look after; and while I enjoyed travel somewhat when I was young, I always realized something: whenever I came home, what I had seen and experienced was always more real in my MIND than it had been when I was there looking at it!
I really like to stay home now, and take care of things. But daily, I’m amazed by the resources that are at my fingertips ;-)
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Canada replaced their $2 bill with a coin in 1995
Yes, the ‘Toonie’ ;-)
We still have a 2-Dollar bill, but they’re hard to come by. My Father used to bring them home from the racetrack, and I always keep a few around. It’s kind of fun to baffle the convenience store folks with them now and then - but a lot of trouble for the fun :-)
when did they steal our flag? and why did they have to rename it? and what else have they been stealing? Where are the reporters on this?
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John Wayne lived a long and colorful life with a prolific career that spanned an incredible 50 years.
One of the most beloved actors of our time, he had seven children and 26 grandchildren.
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Must have been yet another thing that those pesky Russians had a hand in.
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Grace Kelly’s family had to present the prince of Monaco a dowry of two million dollars before the wedding could take place.
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Oh crap, there really IS not anything that I don’t know NOW!
Except...Is it ‘anything’ or ‘any thing’?
Or why do I have such a bad gramma.
Pubic scool?
ping
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