8.10.06

Betcha Didn't Know....

Did You Know...
  • Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • Your stomach has to produce a layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  • An average American spends an average of 6 months waiting at red lights their whole life.
  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
On Animals, Reptiles, Amphibians and all those other living, breathing, non-human creatures that share our World...
  • 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 shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Butterflies taste with their feet.
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  • In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
And Not To Forget...
  • Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • 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.
  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
  • There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: - "abstemious" and "facetious."
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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