Ain't It the Truth!!

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

 

Good to know.

And: "Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself", at least you'd never be hungry again if it digested itself.

 

Better talk to your source, sharks aren't fish!

 

Hmm

As far as I know Chondrichthyes (or Elasmobranchs depending on your religion) are fish.

NOAA seems to agree.

http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/faq/fishfaq8.html#q7

 

Out of all of the facts listed in this thread, I find this one the most disturbing.

 

No, I know whales are mammals.

Given the scientific classification, sharks are as related to bony fish as they are to mammals. But, since they do both say "fish", I'll concede the point

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata

• Class Agnatha: Fish lacking jaws
• Class Chondrichthyes: Cartilaginous fish
• Class Osteichthyes: Bony fish
• Class Amphibia: Amphibians, adapted to terrestrial and aquatic environments
• Class Reptilia: Reptiles, descendants of amphibians adapted to living on land alone
• Class Aves: The birds
• Class Mammalia: The mammals, a diverse class with hair and mammary glands

 

At least that list didn't have the duck echo thing (for the record - duck quacks do echo)

the longest word on one line is RUPTUREWORT not TYPEWRITER

Winston Churchill story debunked:
http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

At what rate of speed are they walking?

I don't have time, but there are other inaccuracies.

Brian
"in any internet trivia list, at least 3 facts are false"

 

Ok, so can we change it to; Winston Churchill was CONCIEVED in a Cloak Room at a dance? That way no one can dis-prove it then, right?

Sounds more fun too

 

That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

 

>In the last 4,000 years, no new
>animals have been domesticated.

Hey, what about gerbils?

 

Ok I just dug out a 2 buck bill and looked at the flag and it's the Canadian flag, it's waving in the breeze(hot air more like it knowing politicians) and you can see the solid bar on the left and the maple leaf in the middle and the right bar is on a lower level as it's curled back towards the middle. Sorry to disappoint you

 

http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

Sonopes is a good debunking cite. If you don't believ them, they usually post souces so you can decide for yourself. Actually there is one fasle fact there (something about pirates) just to make a point that you shouldn't trust any one source.

Brian