
05-31-2003, 06:43 AM
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Just me.
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Location: West central Illinois
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Now you know just about everything
Another recent email to me shared this wisdom ..
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; lollipop" with your right.
~The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
~The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
~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 just about everything that is really important!
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05-31-2003, 07:35 AM
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Palindromes extend to whole sentences.
Napoleon is credited with,
"Able was I ere I saw Elba."
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05-31-2003, 08:58 AM
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My kids spend time in the car trying to make up palindromes on long trips.... that a smacking the hell out of eachother every time we pass a VW.
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05-31-2003, 09:13 AM
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Southern Belle
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Very interesting. Some I knew, some I did not. Thanks for adding to my bank of useless information 
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06-01-2003, 10:23 AM
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Bastard of Member
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Illinois
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There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
She is the only one I really wanted to Eat 
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06-01-2003, 12:10 PM
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Everybody Stretch!
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Pa. USA
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~February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
What does this mean to the human cycle? Did all the ladies who got their period during a full moon......um......get preggers then? LMFAO!
*Gotta go.....I think my human water level is in overdrive*
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