THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

And you thought you knew it all, think again.  Of course most, if not all of this you probably don't need to know either....

• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.  Thank goodness for that since I have probably gone thru several hundred myself.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
• 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.
• 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 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 England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• 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.
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump.' "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; lollipop"
  with your right.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The only 15_letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
• 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 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• 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."
• There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
•  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
•  Women blink nearly twice as much as men 

  ..  ...  ...  now you know everything!

  -- courtesy of Rick and Beverly Clowdus