You think you know everything?

cisco

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PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ARE VERY IRRITATING TO THOSE OF US WHO DO.

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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 the 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.

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 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





.............Now you know everything
 

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"If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction"

...that makes no sense. If they were walking at a faster rate than they were reproducing.....ahhh nevermind lol
 

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

I dont buy this one either.....ever see Marty Feldman. I find it hard to believe his eyes were that big out of the birth canal.
 

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KotysDad said:
"If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction"

...that makes no sense. If they were walking at a faster rate than they were reproducing.....ahhh nevermind lol

My line of thinking is... if they are walking the whole time, how easy is it for them to have sex in order to reproduce? And if they are able to do that, are they making women 8-9 months pregnant walk the whole time, too?
 

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I know u didn't ask for these to be "debunked", cisco, but I was bored, so here goes.

cisco said:
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.


The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


Red lights: Does that equate to about 11 minutes a day if you live 70 years? If I figured that right, I think that one is flawed.
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so that means to just cross the ENglish channel (21 miles) it would take 211,200 gallons of diesel? Must be operating at a loss! According to what I found below, this figure is 100 times too much.

from the QE2 website "What is the fuel consumption?
At the service speed of 28.5 knots, consumption is 380 tons per day: this equates to 50 ft/gall. "

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lol, found a few more. Man was I bored and in a state of insomnia tonight!


A baby does have kneecaps, they are just not ossified (or made of bone, more like cartilage) at birth.
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undreamt also ends in the letters "mt" ;)
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February '99 also had no full moon (email probably originated before that.
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The AMerican flag is not flying on any Canadian money.
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how about the word ARSENIOUS for having all the vowels in order?
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goldfish must have a longer memory span than 3 seconds, because every time I walk by my tank, the come to the surface and "click" the top of the water begging for food. They obviously remember that more than 3 seconds.
 

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China's population problem was curtailed several years ago by allowing families to have only one child.If they have more that are taxed VERY heavily on each.As you approach apartments there are many times a list written on side of building showing those families to be taxed.
 

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KotysDad said:
I dont buy this one either.....ever see Marty Feldman. I find it hard to believe his eyes were that big out of the birth canal.
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SURPRISED THAT FOCKER OR DTB DIDN'T MENTION THIS FUN FACT.

EVERY CORVETTE MADE TODAY IN THE WORLD IS PRODUCED IN BOWLING GREEN, KY.
 
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