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GrandmasterCow
01-05-2005, 11:42 AM
SO YOU THINK 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 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.

Z-another thing you should know is that this was written in alphabtical order.

....................Now you know everything

feel fre to add stuff

matt98ls1
01-05-2005, 12:08 PM
Z-another thing you should know is that this was written in alphabtical order.



No it wasn't..... check the first three entries :wink:

last time i checked, the alphabet went a-b-c-d

ar0ck
01-05-2005, 12:30 PM
Ha I had to look at my keyboard about the one with Typewriter.

Ian
01-05-2005, 12:30 PM
number 1 should have been number 3

bluebird94
01-05-2005, 02:18 PM
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.


purple nurple? it rhymes but its not a word lol

Trans Am Chick
01-05-2005, 03:31 PM
how many snapple caps did it take to get that list... ive gotten most of those in the real fact thingies...

bluebird94
01-05-2005, 05:45 PM
well i believe there are 46 facts there...so 46? lol

camaro2you
01-05-2005, 06:44 PM
hey i knew all of that:D lol

Fasterthanyou
01-05-2005, 07:49 PM
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ?
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
That is false. Everything else you said is true. Do a search on google for the Red Ensign. It was Canada's flag up until 1965 and THAT is what is on the two dollar bill!
See... you don't know everything, I do :P

Oh, and I'll add a few I found online;
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
Coca-Cola was originally green
Pez's least known flavor is coffee
Coca-Cola was 5 cents a bottle for 70 years
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

I thought those were the most interesting. 5 cents for a bottle of coke for 70 years and in the past few years it's jumped 20 cents for a 16oz!

Savage_Messiah
01-05-2005, 08:05 PM
I know more than you:
there's no such thing as eggplany :lol:

Fasterthanyou
01-05-2005, 08:11 PM
I know more than you:
there's no such thing as eggplany :lol:
I don't know WHAT you're talking about. :fluffy:

Savage_Messiah
01-05-2005, 09:07 PM
I know more than you:
there's no such thing as eggplany :lol:
I don't know WHAT you're talking about. :fluffy:

well isn't that just one more thing I know and you don't :wink:

12secondv6
01-05-2005, 09:51 PM
I know my neon is SEXY 8)

Fasterthanyou
01-05-2005, 10:02 PM
I know more than you:
there's no such thing as eggplany :lol:
I don't know WHAT you're talking about. :fluffy:

well isn't that just one more thing I know and you don't :wink:
:owned: :stfu: :werd: :j/k: :google:

Kojak
01-05-2005, 10:49 PM
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.



WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO NOO!!!!!!!

84HOtransam
01-05-2005, 11:38 PM
I know my neon is SEXY Â* 8)

i was waiting to read that....i think it makes 10...

Savage_Messiah
01-06-2005, 12:19 AM
I know my neon is SEXY Â* 8)
... she thinks my tractor's sexyyyyyyyyy...

yea boon sent me the tractor song... catchy ****...

12secondv6
01-06-2005, 02:57 PM
I know my neon is SEXY Â* 8)

i was waiting to read that....i think it makes 10...
8)

formula4speed
01-06-2005, 03:27 PM
New Jersey, on average, has the purist heroin in the world. You crazy druggies.

arc555
01-06-2005, 07:46 PM
Good ones guys. :P

PBodyGT87
01-07-2005, 12:02 PM
that little pink collection of skin on the inside corner of your eye is an actual remnant of a third eyelid that humans used to have back in more prehistoric times, (think, caveman or earlier) that closed from side to side, much like the third eyelid of a dog. Like the dogs' third eyelid, it was used to protect the eye from debree while running through brush, particularly while either hunting or being chased. The eyelid was transparent enough to see through, while covering the eye surface completely. Another vestigial stucture like the skin fold, is the human tailbone, which today serves no purpose in human daily life, but gives a strong inclination or suggestion that at one point in the development of the human species, humans had a tail.

What would our bucket seats look like if we had a tail today? Hmmm..

Fasterthanyou
01-07-2005, 12:39 PM
that little pink collection of skin on the inside corner of your eye is an actual remnant of a third eyelid that humans used to have back in more prehistoric times, (think, caveman or earlier) that closed from side to side, much like the third eyelid of a dog. Like the dogs' third eyelid, it was used to protect the eye from debree while running through brush, particularly while either hunting or being chased. The eyelid was transparent enough to see through, while covering the eye surface completely. Another vestigial stucture like the skin fold, is the human tailbone, which today serves no purpose in human daily life, but gives a strong inclination or suggestion that at one point in the development of the human species, humans had a tail.

What would our bucket seats look like if we had a tail today? Hmmm..
That's really interesting. Never thought of the eyelid thing but the tail was always interesting. Although I might add that the tailbone could be considered our last measure or protection before spinal damage.
There's that other thing like no rooom for wisdom teeth. Or that stupid appendix that exploads from not being used.
Speaking of wisdom teeth, did you get yours taken care off?

foff667
01-07-2005, 12:55 PM
could also be the reason dogs are mans best friend...maybe in a previous life we really were...things that make you go hmmm :lol:

Fasterthanyou
01-07-2005, 03:07 PM
could also be the reason dogs are mans best friend...maybe in a previous life we really were...things that make you go hmmm :lol:
I was going to say that, lol.
Doggy-style :playboy: . Couldn't help myself.

PBodyGT87
01-07-2005, 03:29 PM
[That's really interesting. Never thought of the eyelid thing but the tail was always interesting. Although I might add that the tailbone could be considered our last measure or protection before spinal damage.
There's that other thing like no rooom for wisdom teeth. Or that stupid appendix that exploads from not being used.
Speaking of wisdom teeth, did you get yours taken care off?

We used to have room for wisdom teeth, especially being that the bone structure of prehistoric humans was much broader and larger than the present day ones. My older brother doesnt even have wisdom teeth in his top jaw just because he never had them to begin with, which is quite the perfect example of how humans are beginning to get rid of things we don't use, at least for those on the higher end of the gene pool, with more advanced DNA, like that of my genius 4.0 summa cum laude older brother. I think that was a run-on.... Anyway, the appendix tends to explode more because of infection due to indigestible, rough, and irritating debree getting stuck in it, rather than it just not being used. Well, I guess if it could be used, it wouldn't explode from debree getting stuck in it... So your right. The appendix is the humans' gizzard, essentially, and is supposed to grind up ruffage, so i guess just our basic diet change caused it to have nothing to work on, and thus become a vestigial stucture like the rest of these fancy useless things we have.

But you probably already knew all of that, because you are Jon Prevost, tall, handsome, deep voiced genius.

And I have not gotten my wisdom teeth taken care of yet, but as of right now they are not causing me any pain.

Fasterthanyou
01-08-2005, 11:06 AM
[That's really interesting. Never thought of the eyelid thing but the tail was always interesting. Although I might add that the tailbone could be considered our last measure or protection before spinal damage.
There's that other thing like no rooom for wisdom teeth. Or that stupid appendix that exploads from not being used.
Speaking of wisdom teeth, did you get yours taken care off?

We used to have room for wisdom teeth, especially being that the bone structure of prehistoric humans was much broader and larger than the present day ones. My older brother doesnt even have wisdom teeth in his top jaw just because he never had them to begin with, which is quite the perfect example of how humans are beginning to get rid of things we don't use, at least for those on the higher end of the gene pool, with more advanced DNA, like that of my genius 4.0 summa cum laude older brother. I think that was a run-on.... Anyway, the appendix tends to explode more because of infection due to indigestible, rough, and irritating debree getting stuck in it, rather than it just not being used. Well, I guess if it could be used, it wouldn't explode from debree getting stuck in it... So your right. The appendix is the humans' gizzard, essentially, and is supposed to grind up ruffage, so i guess just our basic diet change caused it to have nothing to work on, and thus become a vestigial stucture like the rest of these fancy useless things we have.

But you probably already knew all of that, because you are Jon Prevost, tall, handsome, deep voiced genius.

And I have not gotten my wisdom teeth taken care of yet, but as of right now they are not causing me any pain.
I didn't know that people couldn't even have wisdome teeth. I thought everybody had them, just some didn't have room. So I guess I don't know everything, darn, lol.

foff667
01-08-2005, 07:45 PM
turns out liz's family has far superior genes i guess go figure.

Fasterthanyou
01-08-2005, 10:56 PM
turns out liz's family has far superior genes i guess go figure.
I don't know why but your reply just made me think of Mauricio from the movie "Shallow Hal" where he had a tail, lol.
Wouldn't the lack of wisdom teeth mean your brother wasn't wise? sorry, dumb joke, I'll shut up now.