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you think your smart eh? - Tex - 10-06-2005 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. .............Now you know everything you think your smart eh? - Mr. Tune - 10-06-2005 That's the most I've learned in a few minutes span ever. you think your smart eh? - SixVi6-Camaro - 10-06-2005 "The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing." that number must change drastically if the average person was a horny guy on the internet who prefers to pitch lefty. lol!! you think your smart eh? - Astro - 10-06-2005 In the palindromes you for got RADAR............. you think your smart eh? - snakebite46 - 10-06-2005 Thats some cool stuff. LOL @ Six !!!!!!!!!! you think your smart eh? - north_shore_racer - 10-06-2005 those sound like the things coming out of the top of an assignment notebook from skool. cuz we got liek half those and also...technically burple rhymes with purple and its not in the dictionary but i consider it a word. cuz its like my favorite color. now i kno everything i can wuit skool and i dont have to go to college...lol jk John you think your smart eh? - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 10-06-2005 Madam, I'm Adam. Live evil. Gabe's on a nosebag. Racecar Cora sees a roc. Live forever of evil Live not on evil. Step on no pets. We'll let Dad tell Lew Yo, banana boy! you think your smart eh? - Obsessive R/C - 10-06-2005 DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 Wrote:Madam, I'm Adam.:crazy: you think your smart eh? - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 10-06-2005 Obsessive R/C Wrote::crazy: All palindromes. you think your smart eh? - Obsessive R/C - 10-06-2005 Oh...look at you Mr. big words...you're sooo smart j/k you think your smart eh? - rocco79 - 10-06-2005 On mythbusters they disproved the goldfish memory one..... you think your smart eh? - squirrel - 10-07-2005 Quote:A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hoursgabe/john you remember st. louis? that poor dragonfly! i would have only wanted to live for 24 hours too! for those of you that weren't there, at the last showme showdown we caught one and stuck a stick up it's ass! we'll the st. louis boys did! those crazy hicks! (sorry it was actually a horsefly ooops) you think your smart eh? - TowShen - 10-07-2005 hey num nut that was a horse fly not a dragon fly you think your smart eh? - squirrel - 10-07-2005 hey left nut didn't you read the bottom of the post!! your close to becoming the wrench!!! j/k learn to read the whole post bioch! lets not forget "i ken speel guder!" you think your smart eh? - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 10-07-2005 Obsessive R/C Wrote:Oh...look at you Mr. big words...you're sooo smart Is that a Stewie Griffin quote? I picture him saying it, and it's FUNNY! I liked the palin's with Roc and Gabe mentioned. Kinda bizarre, don't ya think? |