So you think you know everything?

[n2mark]

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.

[cruadin]

1. I just have one question:

Why the hell was Betty Rubble excluded from the Flinstones Chewable Vitamins?

I smell conspiracy. :tinfoilhat:

[antigone382]

8. They thought her shape was "too similar" to Wilma.

But to me, Betty and Wilma look very different. Fred and Barney, on the other hand, have almost exactly the same silhouette (though one's a little smaller).

Instead of Betty, they have a vitamin shaped like the family car. :eyes:

[short bus president]

19. the ***official*** word from a former Bayer insider

is that Betty is back. The previous iteration of Vitamin Betty was too thin, and they broke. Apparently it was a big thing when Betty came back.

[emanymton]

2. Thank You. I Didn't Know That.

[Miami Liberal]

3. Cool

the only one I knew was: TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

[Mrs_Beastman]

4. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Another fact...You blink more when you are thinking

Also..there are exactly 122 noodles in a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup

[merh]

13. Have to ask

does that mean women think more? :shrug:

[Mrs_Beastman]

16. Just a fact...who knows!

[merh]

17. I have my suspicions.

:freak:

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

5. There are more chickens than people in the world.

I hope so, otherwise we will be going hungry...

[DrDebug]

6. I knew three!

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

[knowbody0]

7. thank you very much

everyone here feels much smarter today. do you know anything else?

[DS1]

9. There's a species of Lemur that has an extended and sharp middle finger

for harpooning grubs out of tress. There's another species of Lemur that is adapted for the night, and taps on the sides of branches listening for anything that moves inside.

15 species of Lemur have been made extinct in the last 6 years.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. How do they test this?

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

[DS1]

11. oops

you said that

[fleabert]

12. fun truth!

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/861940964.An.r.html

>snip<
Newborns do have kneecaps... Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don't show up on x-ray very well because they're not ossified, or bony. At this point in life, the kneecaps are made of a cartilaginous material. The growth centers surrounding the kneecap form late in developmental life in utero and may not appear until just before or just after the infant is born.

that one is a pet peeve of mine... check out this little convo on 'fun facts' for discussion on the veracity of these 'facts'.

http://surveycentral.org/survey/21150.html

[Mrs_Beastman]

18. interesting

at age 25, your bones are completely done growing...it's all downhill from there!

[giant_robot]

14. I'll have to take your word on the Canadian $2 bill...

...the $2 coins have been around so long I can't remember what the bill looks like.

[Bunny]

15. The Winston Churchill thing is an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. Half the country doesn't know this but Bush talks out his ass.

:woohoo:

[Mrs_Beastman]

21. 80% of Fox viewers think that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks!