its not the American flag. Its the old Union Standard flag. All red body with Union Jack in top left corner (the original flag of Canada before the Maple Leaf). By having a top left corner box, people assume its the stars of Old Glory.

 

I have not seen a $2 bill in years.

 

I would like to have a couple hundred thousand of these:

 

I haven't seen one of those in years!

 

FEAR NOT ROSE . . . BETTY IS IN THE FLINTSTONE VITAMINS. You can go to the Bayer Web site, (and see my note below). It's actually in the Flintstones Vitamins Homepage FAQs

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You said "deal with it..."

I know just about everything, and I can deal with it . . .

...I will let you know which of these are correct and which are not . . . along with any additonal comments that may be of interest.


A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
This is true. You might also be interested to know, since we're listing measurements about dimes, that the U.S. dime is 91.67 percent copper and 8.33 percent nickel (prior to 1965 the dime was made of silver) It has a diameter of 17.91 mm and is 1.35 mm thick. It is the smallest, thinest, and lightest of U.S. Coins.


A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Yes and No. It depends on the species. Well, actually, there are NO muscles in the ear itself. The ear is made of cartilage and such, the muscles are attached to it (like like in you and me). The fascination with this is because the damn creatures can move their ears ins so many weird ways, and the attached muscle count varies between species. That said, the last time I was at Burt's and we were dissecting cats, I counted 32.


A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
Sort of... a croc's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth, so mostly that's true, however, last time I was in Florida, I drove over one that was crossing the highway and it's tongue shot out what must have been a good nine inches.
Also, here are some crocs with their tongues out:
http://www.grandmasattic.com.au/prod563.htm


A dragonfly has a life! span of 24 hours.
Wrong, Dragon fly life spans range from 6 months to 7 years. Most of that is spent in the nymph stage, in the adult stage it lives only for a few weeks.



A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Also wrong, see previous posts.



A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Yes, but that's not the only unit of time it represents. It is also used to represent the duration of one tick of the computer's system
clock. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and
Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec
has become common. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a
1-millisecond wall time interval. Even more confusingly,
physicists semi-jokingly use "jiffy" to mean the time required
for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to
be close to one *nanosecond*.



A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
This is intereesting. Most sharks can not "blink" at all and they roll their eyes back for protection of the eye. Some of the Carcharinid shark species, like the blue shark and the bull shark, have a special type of eyelid called a nictatating membrane. This structure covers down over the eye to protect it when the shark is attacking or is threatened. But they do not "blink"

A snail can sleep for three years.
Uh . . . yeah, when it is induced from an outside force, and then it isn't really sleep, it goes beyond that. Want of water will cause the common garden snail to go into a state of the most complete and curious lethargy. This is the snail of the genus Limax, not the larger one of the genus Helix. In the latter the phenomenon of hibernation is especially remarkable. In November the snail forms just a soft, silky membrane across the external opening of its shell. On the inner surface of that it deposits a coating of carbonate of lime, which immediately hardens the gypsum. This partition is again lined with a silky membrane. The snail then retires a little further into the shell and forms a second membranous partition, retiring again and again until there are six of these partitions between the snail and the lime-coated door at the entrance of the shell. In the recess behind all these partitions the snail lies torpid until May. All this time it lives without motion, without heat, without food, without air, without circulation or the exercise of any of its functions. If this snail is prevented from hibernating for several seasons by keeping it in a warm room, it will gradually waste away and die. A case is known where several snails of this genus were shut in a perforated box without food or water. They retired into their shells and closed them with a thin membrane. They remained so for three years, but revived when put into torpid water.


Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Yup, that's true.



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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Oh...I'm sorry, NOT! It's 26. Go to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and you'll see this:
" The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the face of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York. "

Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Yes they are.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Yup, that's true too. In fact, it's true of a great many HUMANS I have encountered thourght my life so far.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!
Uh . . . this depends on how you define kneecap. If you see it as a bone and do not consider the material that makes it up in babies (already there) then this is correct. In babies, where their kneecaps would be is a cartilage material called the patella. It develops into bone in children at different rates, usually anywhere from 2 to 6 years.

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Well, depends on how you define taste, but yeah, this is how it can be taken to mean, so yes, true.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
Sorry, wrong again. Cats have a LOT more than 100 sounds, AND so do dogs.
(We're referring to differences in pitch here. . .)


"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
To the best of my knowledge, this is true, but I'm only 80% of the way through reading the OED.


February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Jesus . . . who makes this stuff up? This occurs about once every 19 years. (In February)


In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
You can't prove this either way.


If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Of course it will end . . . eventually all life on the planet will end. (Not to mention the birth rate could drop) This is a nice fanciful litltle myth that sounds good but makes no sense.


If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
This is the same as the China population thing. It's speculation at best. In Lost Angeles we spend 6 months waiting for red lights in one year alone (it's a joke . . . don't write that I'm making the same speculation...I'm aware of this.) This statement is meaningless.

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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Not true. In the most extreme counter to this, you could hold your eyes open (although, quite frankly, why would you want to?), however, studies have shown that many people's eyes are open when they sneeze (your heart does not stop when you sneeze either, by the way).

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Yup . . . and just about everything else for that matter.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Awesome fact, isn't it? True...and . . .?

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Sort of . . . there are six (6) basic types of rhymes. There are "end rhymes" (blue/shoe) there are "last syllable rhymes" (timber/harbor), there are double rhymes (conviction/prediction), there are triple rhymes (frightening/brightening), there are beginning rhymes (physics/fizzle), and there are first syllable rhymes (carrot/caring). The two main ryhmes that most think of are "perfect rhymes" which is what this bit about words that don't have rhymes is about, and 'imperfect rhymes" , which, if you saw Educating Rita, means "getting the rhyme wrong", or, another way to think of it is "they sort of sound alike". Orange could be considered to rhyme with door hinge, but that would be a multiple word imperfect rhyme. Ok...I'll stop now.


On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
NOT. Addressed already in this forum, and you can go here:
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/


Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Actually, the eyes do grow, but it is by a very small amount, especially in relation to the rest of the body. As for the nose and ears, it's actually the nose and ear-lobes, not the whole ear (and "never stop growing" is inaccurate, they stop after you die, otherwise the planet would now be buried under trillions of giant noses and ears)

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Sort of . . . peanut oil is an ingredient in some processes for making nitroglycerine

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Last longer than what? True in reference to general life-span. However, you have to keep them in the frig I would guess.

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

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
How does one verify this?

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
(i.e. 10,560 gals per mile; 1,056,000 per hundred miles)
Do I really have to rebut this? This is just stupid. What, 45,000,000 gallons from UK to USA? How big is the QE2 . . . you figure it out.


The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
True, this is how Percy Spencer got the idea for the microwave oven.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
Yup, that's true . . . even repeats some letters.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
No . . . sorry, go here:
http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Fact...gara_Falls.htm
It sort of came close once on march 29th, 1848 but only because an ice pack stopped the flow of all water for a few hours.

The words 'radar', 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
As are many other words, including the band name ABBA . . . and the point is?

There are 293 ways! to make change for a dollar.
You'd never know this by watching kids who work the cash-register at stores these days.

There are more chickens than people in the world.
Not sure how you could verify this, but it sounds right.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Uh- huh . . . that's great

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
Sure enough.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
WRONG. (Rest easy Rose) Actually, Betty was missing during the early years, but Betty was added in December of 1995 (she replaced the Flintmobile)
Go here:
http://www.bayercare.com/htm/flintfaq.htm#23

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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
True . . . so do Zebras.


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

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
NOPE . . . (you gotta love snopes)
http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Along with this, they do lots of stuff more than men . . . none of it worth mentioning.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Not exactly . . . it is capable of "eating" itself, (ulcer), but digesting itself . . . death would occur before that process finished.

 

Yeah . . . I was bored, and I had some free time on my hands . . . so what?

 

That's Great!! Good Job!!

 

Some free time???!!! Looks like maybe the entire day there!! But thanks for clearing all that up, I was losing sleep over that whole vitamin conspiracy thing!!

 

Okay now i think i know why habibi left .. geezzzzzzzzzzz.

kobiashi, you are a god in your own mind.

I am done here.

PS get some sleep and a life.