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| jannah |
| 04/21/04 at 04:44:46 |
| So you think you know everything? 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. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. A fetus that is four months old, will becomes startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach. The Taj Mahal was once scheduled to be torn down in the 1830's. If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this plant would get about 20 kilograms of gold each. 70% of the poor people in the world are female. Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes. Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60. The oceans of the world would rise about 60 meters if Antarctica's ice sheets melted. . ....................Now you know almost everything ;) |
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| UmmWafi |
| 04/21/04 at 04:53:16 |
| [slm] And sons have a public display of affection for their mom lifespan of maximum 6 years grrrrrrrr >:( A-disgruntled-mom-whose-son-always-wriggle-free-when-she-hugs-him-in-public Wassalam |
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| Mossy |
| 04/21/04 at 06:22:27 |
| Girls have cooties, moms do not. Tell him that. |
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| Mona |
| 04/21/04 at 06:55:40 |
| [quote] On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. [/quote] we have a toonie now, no more $2 bills. p.s. -the toonie is a $2 coin -the loonie is a $1 coin , called a loonie because has a picture of a loon (duck) one side |
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| nida |
| 04/21/04 at 22:48:42 |
| slm, some more: Coca-Cola was originally green. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A. He was allergic to carrots. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910 |
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| UmmWafi |
| 04/21/04 at 23:55:56 |
| [quote author=Mossy link=board=bebzi;num=1082537086;start=0#2 date=04/21/04 at 06:22:27]Girls have cooties, moms do not. Tell him that.[/quote] It might work..except for the fact that he is at the age where he finds girls a bore (Alhamdulillah x 1000000000000). Seriously, now that I am a mother meself, I suddenly become aware of how powerful blackmail is heh heh (I am shameless I know...sighhhhh) |
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