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So 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 3 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 $5.00 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 100 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. 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 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" used 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).   * Hey, what about 'radar'? See, this senior is awake. 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 Chewable 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 everything!

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