Believe It Or Not

..:: Believe It Or Not ::..

• 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 Capo NE'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.
  

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  

• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 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.

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  

• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  

• 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 die! Sel 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 l! Azy 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 in "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.
  

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