In Case You Thought You Knew Everything ...

  1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
  7. Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  8. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
  10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  11. No word in the English language rhymes with "month," "orange," "silver" or "purple."
  12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
  16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": "tremendous," "horrendous," "stupendous" and "hazardous."
  18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de NuNuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
  19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
  25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
  26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  30. In England, the Speaker of the House in not allowed to speak.
  31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  32. Mr. Rogers (from the children's show) is an ordained minister.
  33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right.
  36. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
  37. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  38. A snail can sleep for three years.
  39. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
  40. Butterflies taste with their feet.
  41. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
  42. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  43. In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
  44. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  45. If you are an average American, in your whole life you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
  46. Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
  47. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  48. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  49. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
  50. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
  51. The words "racecar," "kayak" and "level" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (they are "palindromes").
  52. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
  53. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
  54. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  55. Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
  56. 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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