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Mr.Attitude
03-25-2005, 06:42 PM
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.

Mr.Attitude
03-25-2005, 06:43 PM
More Palindromes:

Straw Warts
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
I prefer pi
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
A slut taxes sex at Tulsa
Sex at noon taxes.
Sex at my gym taxes.
Sex often: I met foxes.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Six ate nine taxis.
Sex Alert: "Ella, my mallet relaxes!"


More fun facts:
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
The first couple shown in bed together on television was Fred and Willlma Flinstone.
Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Women who went to college are more likely than high school dropouts to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex.

Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sex.
Jazz fans and gun owners are among the most sexually active Americans.
The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

During the last ice age, starting about 24,000 years ago, Connecticut was buried under a sheet of ice more than a mile thick.
Near the end of the last glacial retreat, Hartford was at the bottom of a lake called Lake Hitchcock.
In 1921, Silver Lake Colorado got more than 6 feet of snow in 24 hours.
The coldest temperature recorded on earth was in Antarctica in 1983, at a frigid Ð128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Euclid
03-27-2005, 05:36 AM
I just read all that being drunk :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Interesting though

DocBowtie
03-27-2005, 01:03 PM
I was born in 1983. Always wanted to go to Antarctica.

Mr.Attitude
03-27-2005, 06:40 PM
feel free to add your own random trivia if you want guys. :mrgreen: