Thursday, March 16, 2006

Did you know?

More useless information for your pleasure!

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 busine ss 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 De 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 birt h, 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 Chewable 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!

18 comments:

Patti said...

Kristi,
Now I have tons of info for those boring stuffy type parties we go to. Nothing to talk about. I'll just bring your list with. (LOL)

Bobby said...

My goal in life is to become the first person in history to sneeze with my eyes open.

Somebody's got to do it ....

Lorie said...

Cool! I LOVE trivial tidbits like that.

Kristi B. said...

That's right, Patti. Never a boring moment around you anymore! You can just start spouting off random facts!

Bobby--Ha ha. Make sure you take a picture of it or videotape it, otherwise, no one will believe you!

Lorie, welcome! good to have you here.

Kc said...

"If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction."

This would make breaking line a much more serious offense! (oops!)

Nephos said...

Wow! I don't think I knew any of that. I would feel so much smarter now if it hadn't occurred to me that since I didn't know all this, it's entirely possible there's more I don't know. Now I feel so much more ignorant.

Thanks.

Bobby said...

I did it. I sneezed with my eyes open. Unfortunately the only person who saw me was a talking pink elephant named Phil.

You probably don't believe me about him either.

Katie said...

everything? finally I've been waiting a while to know everything

ha ha, thank kristi, i needed the random bits of knowledge to complete the insanity

p.s. pics of the puppy? come on you know you want to

Corry said...

Wrong! I don't know everything, like: What, how and where with Cinnamon???? hehe.

God's Grace.

Tim said...

how do you determine exactly how long the attention span of a goldfish is? Is it an average or just part of your standard goldfish?


hmmmmmmm.....

Kitty Cheng said...

wow wow wow...i'm so ignorant!

audrey` said...

WoW!
This is so interesting :)
Thank you for sharing so much new information with us, Kristi =]

Kristi B. said...

I will post pictures of Cinnamon soon! My camera broke while I was in Texas, so I will have to get a disposable until I can afford a new one, or just post pictures from my phone (which aren't the best quality). Be looking for pics Monday, either way!

Gordon said...

Not only do cats have 32 muscles in each ear, they also have no brain between those ears.

Gordon said...

Another thought on cats, out of the 100 sounds they make, 99 of them can be translated, "feed me".

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many people verified these or tried to think of a counter for them?

For example, I read "racecar," "kayak" and "level" to make sure that claim was correct.

I looked for "Typewriter," "lollipop" and "stewardesses" on my keyboard.

etc.

Courtney said...

Jes is ever the verifier...

Kristi - Wow! What a pretty blog. I love the pic at the the top.

Anonymous said...

did you know that the inside of a bannana will shine shoes