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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 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 that
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 ten vocal sounds.

"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" is the longest word with your right hand.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
"TYPEWRITER"is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

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 Fall s 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 Flintstone Chewables Vitamins.

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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