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I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« on: January 16, 2005, 04:42:30 pm »
 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 Capones'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 azardous

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

stephen
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2005, 07:04:52 pm »
I had to do a doubletake there, thought it said "I'm sure Satan knows all of this."
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2005, 07:46:06 am »
So Stephan, what do you do with your time off????  ;)

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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2005, 07:47:36 am »
 I wonder why they kept Betty Rubble out of Flintstones Vitimins?

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2005, 09:14:34 am »
I wonder why they kept Betty Rubble out of Flintstones Vitimins?



They got hung up on royalties while they were trying to hammer out a contract.

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2005, 10:38:20 am »
I wonder why they kept Betty Rubble out of Flintstones Vitimins?



They got hung up on royalties while they were trying to hammer out a contract.



Man, she was the cute one.  :(
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2005, 10:52:49 am »
I wonder why they kept Betty Rubble out of Flintstones Vitimins?



They got hung up on royalties while they were trying to hammer out a contract.



Man, she was the cute one.  :(

This one or the other??


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The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

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it couldn't"
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2005, 11:06:22 am »
Ahem, the cartoon version.  ::) :D
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2005, 09:48:26 pm »
actually one of these was proved false on the show mythbusters...

goldfish actually have a memory longer than three seconds. on the show they trained goldfish over the span of 8 weeks to navigate a maze in their tanks to get at their food...

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2005, 11:11:35 am »
And it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.  I've done it.
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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2005, 11:18:08 am »
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

I have to agree, that is a typo.  What you should have typed was democrats have a three second memory about their own parties mis-deeds.


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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2005, 11:23:10 am »
actually one of these was proved false on the show mythbusters...

goldfish actually have a memory longer than three seconds. on the show they trained goldfish over the span of 8 weeks to navigate a maze in their tanks to get at their food...

sorry to burst your bubble...

I remember that now. They kept adding more and more opbsticles in the Goldfish's way, while the other tank, the guy spent a week trying to Kill them.  ;)

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2005, 11:59:20 am »
I had to do a doubletake there, thought it said "I'm sure Satan knows all of this."

<looks at title>

It does.  What's the difference?

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2005, 01:43:14 pm »
And it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.  I've done it.

  :lol: Did you pratice? Or just do it one day?

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2005, 09:18:27 pm »
Yea and he had to explain to the ER doc exactly why his eyeballs burst from his head.

You close your eyes for a reason you know :P

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Re: I'm Sure Sethan knows all of this.
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2005, 12:40:01 pm »
I just do sometimes.  Like if I'm driving.
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