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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.....

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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.

Not true, only about half of them are listed.

Mark


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.....

--
George D
Phoenix, AZ
AAA, AARP, ANA, NRA, RCC ?+1, PIA, PIAAZ, GATF 85006-3032-18-4


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"George D" wrote in message
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Thanks George.
Sheesh!
This being a nit-picky NG:

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.

Not true.
10th Feb 1865 - full moon.
(2 separate sources)


There's others, but one will do for me.

***NEXT!***

--
Jeff R.

If the QE2 only moves 6 inches per gallon, then it would take 21,000,000
gallons to cross the Atlantic, roughly. Methinks she does a little better than
that, but I have no proof. Great list though! Thanks- Mike

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wrote:

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[snip]
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

This one is a old, highly-debunked Urban Legend ...

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

(I suspect that some of the others may be as well, but
this is the one I've debunked in the past and still have
bookmarked ...)

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P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com
San Jose, CA 95152 (souvenir cards, MPC, Hickey Bros tokens)
408-272-3247 Next show: Eureka CC 04/24 (tentative, no table)
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

25 as someone else said.


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.

Incorrect cos i'm a one finger typist ;-)

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

My left hand does more like 95% of the typing, with the right hand
only using the control buttons, and on a really good day the return.
;-) (but spends it's life guiding the mouse).


Sylvester.

(always the exception to the rule).

From: aristocracism

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
of the $5 bill.
25 as someone else said.

The States listed on the $5 Note's Reverse side are only those States which
were a part of the Union when the designing of the Lincoln Memorial was done
(48); however, only 26 can be seen from the angle provided by the image on the
Note.

From the Bureau of Engraving and Printing:

Vignette on the Reverse of the $5 Note - The vignette on the reverse of the
five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the face of the Lincoln Memorial as it
appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48
states that made up the United States of America.

The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why
only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the
five-dollar note.

In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to
right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California,
Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North
Dakota.

In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states a Delaware,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York.

http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/18/123
8-|
- Coin Saver

From: aristocracism

My left hand does more like 95% of the typing

U a southpaw?
8-)


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- Coin Saver

George D wrote:

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

You mean the kind that are common today, pinned at the center, instead
of springed on the ends of the handles. The ancients had those
compression leaf spring scissors, and I would be willing to bet,
perhaps from 4000 BC or earlier. And, such scissors have been in use
recently. I just cleaned and oiled a pair.

On NPR's "What do you know?" for Saturday the 25th, it came out that
only 15% of the people struck by lightening are women.

Michael
"my umbrella has wooden spokes and handle"

On 25 Apr 2004 09:05:34 -0700, (Michael E.
Marotta) wrote:


On NPR's "What do you know?" for Saturday the 25th, it came out that
only 15% of the people struck by lightening are women.

Michael
"my umbrella has wooden spokes and handle"

Because more men are on the golf course during a thunderstorm?

John L.