So You Think You Know Everything?

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  1. JohnO

    JohnO Moderator

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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
    "lollipop" with your right.

    It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

    Maine is the only state in the U.S. whose name is just one syllable.

    No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
    purple.

    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
    stop growing.

    The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
    letter of the alphabet.

    The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
    left to right or right to left
    (palindromes).

    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."

    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
    one row of the keyboard.

    All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
    of the $5 bill

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

    On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
    is an American flag.

    Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

    Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    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 winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

    There are more chickens than people in the world.

    There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

    Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

    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.
     
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  3. Brandon1023

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    Mythbusters on TLC busted the myth that goldfish have a memory span of just 3 seconds. Anyone who owns goldfish can see that whenever you go to feed them, they seem to know just what is happening, and to go to the top of the tank. That in itself would disprove that. Plus they taught them to go thru mazes and stuff. Hehe maybe this makes me a dork, but I thought it was interesting.
     
  4. JohnO

    JohnO Moderator

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    LOL Nope it doesn't make you a dork at all. I am amused however that you would quote "Mythbusters" as an expert source for anything :)