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- A dime has 118 ridges around
the edge.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each
ear.
- A crocodile cannot stick out
its tongue.
- 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.
- All 50 states are listed
across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5
bill.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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."
- 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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