So you think you know everything?

> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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 they reach 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 has 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 with "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

Didn't they disprove this on Mythbusters?

And I think they did eventually add Betty to those vitamin shapes. She stands with her hands on her hips so she won't break in two.

"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple."



Sliver, liver, shiver, deliver

Nurple.

I don't think those technically 'rhyme' -- It would have to be a word ending in 'ilver'. Like the surname Chilver. I think.

Let's not forget scalp and angst.

That's why the next new species, invention or planet that comes along must be named "Ronth Horange Yilver Murple Escalp Sangst."

kalp, walp, pedipalp,

Well that was a waste of a good chocolate bar.

Is that why we batter our eyelashes so well, or is that because we batter our eyelashes so well?