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moh

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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; 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 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 ChewablesVitamins.

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.
 
Snails can sleep for 3 years! I wonder what a jiffy means to them? LOL!

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Love the trivia....

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1. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.

2. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.

3.In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

4.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

5.Rats and horses can't vomit.

6.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

7. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

8.In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders

9.Most lipstick contains fish scales

10.Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

11.Hot water is heavier than cold.

12.The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

13.Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

14.There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.

15.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

16.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

17.A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

18.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

19.It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

20.The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!

21.Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!

22.Slugs have 4 noses.

23.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

:wow:
 
8.In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders

Thanks moh, cant wait to go to bed :err:
lol
 
I love stuff like this! (y)

Nothing like being full of useless trivia.

---------- Post added at 04:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:26 PM ----------

7. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts

Uh-oh...i better quite doing that huh?
 
LOL 7th love this stuff myself must find out why Noely eats so many insects LOL @Noely lol
 
The uselessness of trivia has always intrigued me, I just love it LOL!

You could be right about those photo copiers too!


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