Thursday, November 09, 2006

Hmmmm?

How about these interesting tidbits. Please feel free to add to the list.
(Btw-Do you know the name of the plastic things at the end of shoelaces? I do!)

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of asecond.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All 50 states are listed across the top of theLincoln 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 appearuntil the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in theletters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded historynot to have a full moon.

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

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, butour 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 onlythe left hand; "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of thetyping.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over thelazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Fallsfroze completely solid.

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 languagewhich end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language thathave all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be madeusing the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room duringa dance.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucusevery two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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