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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 Capo ne'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. *********** Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. *********** 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 die! sel 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 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. ***********
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