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Sorry for all the gobble-di-goops in the previous message. The witches and gobblins must have had a go at it, lol.
Wow, very interesting information, thanks for posting it. Donna
ever so interesting
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Here's another interesting, useless fact: Blind people, who are blind from birth or a very young age, do not dream as we know it. Those who become blind later in life, after having sight, do dream as we do. The people who have not had sight, do dream, but they are filled with sounds, smells and feelings/emotions.
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 thatNiagara 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 ChewablesVitamins.
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
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would
never end because of the rate of reproduction.
I want to invoke this fact ,if I'm ever having to be in a 'line up'......by the time they get around to the end i should be Old Enough to know better Try & tell that to the rest of us: In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated This doesn't apply in Quebec ,or to anyone who grew up inQuebec If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights. .........be lucky if we stop to begin with.................hahahahha
I will check into that one Mom,...as I have a close member of the family who is Blind,...& his wife is also what they call legally blind.......... ..................but certainly an interesting & thought provoking submission
When Mary was lonely and depressed in France, the French chef used to make her a special treat for her toast using orange peel. He called "Quand Mary est malade.' which became marmalade. Ed
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