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 th e 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.
(i.e. 10,560 gals per mile; 1,056,000 per hundred miles)


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 'radar', '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.

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


deal with it. Now you know all

 

its not the american flag on the canadian dollar...



other stuff was neat to know though.

 

Dammit....got in my wallet to find a 5 and it was empty...

 

WELL don't keep us in suspence tell us what it is then.

 

I'd hate to see THAT fuel bill!

Now that's information we all need, I can rest easier tonight now that's been brought to light!!

 

Yeah Rose but why is there no BETTY????????????? i think its a conspiracy

 

^^^The great vitamin conspiracy?? How intriguing. With spies and double agents and all that 007 type stuff??!! I'm sure it goes way up to the top level of the government, this is just the sort of thing they'd keep secret from us law abiding tax payers. We need a public outcry...we need protesters "We want our Betty Rubble vitamin and we won't rest until we have it!"

 

The goldfish part is just a rumor but not actually true.

 

And just how do you know that cajun do you have a repetitive goldfish.= dumb

 

I don't but everytime you go to feed one they all remember to go to the top and grab their food.

 

That my friend is a good point.

 

So why do they all know exactly what im doing when I grab the food and open the top of the tank?

 

They did something like this on MythBusters

They built a "maze" that the goldfish had to go through to get their food, and they could remember where to go after several days.

 

They don't make the 2 dollar bill any more. We have a 2 dollar coin. We call it the two-nooie or toonie. Cause we have a dollar coin with a loon on it and we call it the loonie. Every Canadian will know what your talking about if you say it costs a toonie or loonie. Kinda funny.

That's funny about the American flag on our old $2 bill. Some one messed up.

 

That episode was great!