Al Capone's business card stated 'Used Furniture Dealer'.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Americans spend approx. 6 months waiting at red lights, during their lifetime.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age!
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out.
Dimes have 118 ridges around the edge.
Dragonflies have a life span of 24 hours.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history without a full moon.
Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
2007-06-26
12:02:28
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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.
or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
2007-06-26
12:07:41 ·
update #1
sorry, it messed up...I quit! LOL
2007-06-26
12:08:52 ·
update #2
There's definitely times I'm NOT smarter than a 5th grade..like now! ;)
2007-06-26
12:10:39 ·
update #3
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes). THIS IS HOW IT GOES ;)
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.
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! Whew...
2007-06-26
12:16:14 ·
update #4
Riiiiiiiiiiiight...patton..you're funnier than the trivia. lol ;)
2007-06-26
12:21:58 ·
update #5