- 1. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- 2. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- 3. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- 4. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- 5. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- 6. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- 7. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- 8. A snail can sleep for three years.
- 9. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- 10.All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- 11. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- 12. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- 13. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- 14. Butterflies taste with their feet.
- 15. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- 16. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
- 17. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- 18. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- 19. If the population of China walked past you, in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- 20. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
- 21. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- 22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- 23. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
- 24. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- 25. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
- 26. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- 27. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
- 28. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- 29. “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand;Â “lollipop” with your right.
- 30. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- 31. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- 32. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- 33. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- 34. The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
- 35. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- 36. The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
- 37. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- 38. There are more chickens than people in the world.
- 39. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:Â tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- 40. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
- 41. There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
- 42. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- 43. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- 44. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
- 45. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- 46. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;Â otherwise it will digest itself.
- 47. If you fart forIf you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
Now you’re that much smarter!