PlantAKiss
Moderator Schmoderator Fluorescent fluorite, Engl
You read these and you think one of two things..."Wow...I didn't know that!"...or "Someone had waaaaaay too much time on their hands..."
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 100 vocal sounds. Dogs only 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 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 [
Then why don't 80 year olds have giant noses and ears??]
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" is the longest only typed 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 in the world that people
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 Chewable 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
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 100 vocal sounds. Dogs only 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 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" is the longest only typed 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 in the world that people
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 Chewable 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