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Some Things You Don't Need To Know by ruggedtimi(m): 11:30am On Mar 08, 2016 |
[b]* 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. [/b] 1 Like |
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