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Some Things You Don't Need To Know. by JoshWizzey: 5:23pm On Sep 25, 2014 |
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- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. 10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 12- Almonds are a member of the peach family. 13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months 21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. 22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. 30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. 31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone. 32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. 34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump." 36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. (not true, we're told!) 37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 44- A snail can sleep for 3 years. 45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. 48- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 49- No president of the United states was an only child. And last and definitely most important: 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. Source: http://rense.com/general13/dontneed.htm |
Re: Some Things You Don't Need To Know. by tonnieblaise(m): 5:31pm On Sep 25, 2014 |
just incase 28) how on earth is it possible?? Xplain how nd when YOU ate d spiders 42) north america,south america......its wrong bro |
Re: Some Things You Don't Need To Know. by ikon123(m): 5:55pm On Sep 25, 2014 |
@op, u try sha!, though i dnt blv some! |
Re: Some Things You Don't Need To Know. by Nobody: 5:56pm On Sep 25, 2014 |
Not all re true joor |
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