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From: "Gordon Barlow" <>
Subject: [ABOUT WORDS] SO , YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:24:44 -0700
References: <B0044016993@gmail.nationwideinc.com>


> You have to be careful with these things. For example, the Lincoln
> Memorial, dedicated in 1922, could hardly have all 50 states on it. I
> believe it has 48. Jerry

Well, but the "fact" (if it is a fact: I don't have a US$50 bill on me)
doesn't say anything about the actual physical Lincoln Memorial - only about
the picture of it on the bill! Any Lister rich enough to tell us about the
bill? And anybody Canadian enough to tell us about the C$2 bill?

And, yes, there are words in English that rhyme with "orange" and the
others. They are names (e.g. Gorringe). I have pointed this out to the
source of my list, and I hope they haven't printed off too many tea-towels
already.

And who is going to call the man a liar about the number of muscles in a
cat's ear? 32?! In a pig's ear!

Gordon

>
>
> Some are interesting. And, some are about words.
> Gordon
> >
> > >
> > 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 fo r 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.
> [species?]
> >
> > 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. [not counting proper nouns]
> >
> > 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 worl
> > 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!
>
>
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