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Good Morning!
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> for all you trivia buffs - although a shark is not a fish ....
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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.
> 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.
> 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 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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