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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.
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 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.
There, now you know everything
 
/ For those that know everything. #2  
So far I've been able to find 27 states. Hopefully this five dollar bill isn't counterfeit.
 
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I knew all that already.....
 
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Makes you wonder, what to do if a child under the age of 2-6 owes you money.
 
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Obviously, someone never heard of or experienced a “purple nurple”.
 
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Chinese reproduce while walking in single file?

Bruce
 
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My regular internet name is a palindrome. camac which is a combination of my Christian and Surname. (are we still allowed to have 'Christian' names)
 
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PC has gone silly, I no longer have a wife according to some government departments, now a partner, I cross out that word and insert wife then argue with clerical bum shiners that when we married we were declared husband and wife.
 
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Mythbusters trained goldfish to follow color patterns and a maze. The fish remembered 30 days later.
 
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Dragonfly live up to 5 years, and hatched adults live on average 7 months.
 
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Babies are born with kneecaps, however, they are soft cartilage and don't turn into bone until a few years old.
 
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PC has gone silly, I no longer have a wife according to some government departments, now a partner, I cross out that word and insert wife then argue with clerical bum shiners that when we married we were declared husband and wife.

“Clerical bum shiners “. I learned something right there. Not sure exactly what, but it probably isn’t good....��
 
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While closing your eyes while sneezing is a reflex, it's not impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open. I have a condition where I sneeze 5-6 times in a row several times a day. Many times it's 8. My personal best is 10. I also sneeze multiple times if I eat chocolate, or go out in bright sunlight. I can tell you from personal experience, that I can and have sneezed with my eyes open thousands of times in my life. :)
 
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“Clerical bum shiners “. I learned something right there. Not sure exactly what, but it probably isn’t good....��

I tell you what, you hang around with the "down under" guys for a while, and you learn stuff. Whats so funny, you know pretty much what they mean by these "unique phrases", but you just never heard them before. :laughing:
 

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