Stuff you didn't know you didn't know

Stupid stuff you didn’t know:

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.

Hey! No line-fucking allowed!

Boob is a palindrome.

Hey! No line-fucking allowed!

never odd or even

Duh… nurple rhymes with purple. As in Purple Nurple!

;)

–Dave

Things that you didn’t know were wrong about that list but are wrong:

Dragonflies have a lifespan of 2 weeks to 2 months. (http://www.pnl.gov/pals/resource_cards/Dragonflies.stm)

Goldfish do not really have a 3 second memory span. (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/8105)

Sharks don’t blink.
(http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/sharks/faq.html#blink)

Dreamt being the only word that ends in mt is technically true, although Adreamt and Undreamt also end in mt. (http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/dreamt?view=uk)

February 1865 is NOT the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon, this happened as recently as February 1999. Only 4 times in the last 100 years, however.

In the last 4,000 years, several new animals have been domesticated, including the turkey, the rabbit, and the hamster.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication#History_of_domestication)

Bleh, I got tired of doing this when I could have been playing WoW. Anyone else want to do the rest?

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

I just checked this one and it’s definitely not true.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

I have a used car for sale. One careful lady owner, only took it out on Sundays. It did get struck by lightning, which is why the milometer says 181,000 - but really its just 5,000.

etc.

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Hey! No line-fucking allowed![/quote]

I think you mean to no fucking in line. Line-fucking is something you do on a sail boat.

Duh… nurple rhymes with purple. As in Purple Nurple!

;)

–Dave[/quote]

And liver rhymes with sliver! Dyslexic poetry!

What is the best way to annoy a geek? :)

Milometer? That sounds like a candy bar. Do you mean odometer?

We’d surely avoid scurvy if we all ate an orange.

Milometer rhymes with purple.

My that is strange
A rhyming orange
If I eat it my burp’ll
be purple

Ooh, a sight rhyme. How about near-rhyme?

My gerbile
Hates purple.

Ooh, a sight rhyme. How about near-rhyme?

My gerbile
Hates purple.[/quote]

But does your gerbile
like to eat your burp’ll?

We’d surely avoid scurvy if we all ate an orange.[/quote]

Uh… hmmmm… door-hinge?

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Singe? dictionary.com thinks they’re pronounced the same, but I think it might just be its american accent.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

I’d like this one to be true, but it just aint so. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blscissors.htm

Is this one of those trick lists where most of the items are actually incorrect, and you have to figure out which ones are really true?

Luke

(Pre-age 12… )

Am I circumcised!?

Am…I…A…Freak???