Stupid Facts - Pet forum for dogs cats and humans

heidiho · #1 August 31st, 2004, 10:34 AM

>A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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>A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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>A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
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>A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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>A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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>A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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>A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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>A snail can sleep for three years.
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>Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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>All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back
>of the $5 bill.
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>Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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>Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches
>2 to 6 years of age.
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>Butterflies taste with their feet.
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>Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
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>"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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>February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
>moon.
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>In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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>If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
>never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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>If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
>average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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>Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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>No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
>purple.
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>On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
>is an American flag.
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>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
>stop growing.
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>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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>Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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>"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
>"lollipop" with your right.
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>The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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>The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that
>it burns.
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>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
>chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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>The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
>letter of the alphabet.
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>The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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>The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
>left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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>There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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>There are more chickens than people in the world.
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>There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
>tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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>There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
>order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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>There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
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>Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
>one row of the keyboard.
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>Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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>Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise
>it will digest itself.
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>All polar bears are left handed.
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