> 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.

>

> 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.

>

> 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.

>

> 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 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.

>

>

> .............Now you know everything

>