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This came from Toby and Carl

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop"with your right.
2. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
3. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
4. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
5. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
6. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
7. The words 'racecar, 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
8. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
9. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
10. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
11. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
12. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
13. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
14. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.(but who really cares?)
15. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
16. A gold fish has a memory span of three seconds.
17. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
18. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
19. A snail can sleep for three years.
20. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
21. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
22. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
23. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
24. Butterflies taste with their feet. (Another ew!)
25. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
    (no surprise;-)
26. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
27. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
29. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

THERE!..................Now you know everything!


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