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Erin

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Did you know.....
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Leonardo DiVinci invented scissors.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand, 'lollipop' with your right.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel it it burns.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start.
'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
If you are an average American, in you whole life you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face is 10:10.
Its impossible to lick your elbow.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewables.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel which occurs five times: indivisibility.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
That crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That
means if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air a skein.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
More than 50% of people in the world have never made or received phone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language...try it!
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongues print is different.
NOW DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?
OK, honestly, did you try to lick your elbow?
 

Sharon

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More than 50% of people in the world have never made or received phone call.
My teenage daughter has made at least one for each of them. It has gotten to the point where we tell the callers she doesn't live here anymore. :wink:
 

Warron

Member
<<Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination'>>

Weren't assassin's a secret order of Muslims that at the time of the Crusades terrorized Christians and other enemies by secret murder committed under the influence of hashish. Maybe Shakespeare just added the "ation".

>>The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start.<<

Aren't North America and South America considered two seperate continents. The word America by itself does not refer to a continent. It is interesting how the letter A is used in all the continents names though, except for Europe.

>>A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.<<

I'm pretty sure that I've read this is a myth.
 
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