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.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

Fantabulous post! (I guess made up words don't count?)

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Actually it's possible,it just doesn't feel very good.

...Lets go of holding eyes open...

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

You have obviously never seen me drive?

Thanks, Blue Berry.

I've sneezed with my eyes open.

Me too.

here it says it's an reflex to shut the eyes while sneezing and that keeping the eyes open might break blood vessels, making them red and sore.

>The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over >the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

No, but "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogS" does.

The sentence "Quick-wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim" also uses every letter of the alphabet, and does it with only twenty-nine letters.

I prefer "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

(Todd Pence)
">The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over >the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet."
No, but "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogS" does.

The way he had it above was correct (unless it was edited in the meantime).
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine - 26 cycles per second.

People with mental disorders rarely yawn.
Both of General Eisenhowers parents were pacifists.
Jimmy Cagney never said "you dirty rat" in any of his films. William Shatner never said "beam me up Scotty" in Star Trek and Henry II probably never said "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest??" So there.
The woman who wrote keep the homefires burning perished in a housefire.
Charles Darwin did not coin the phrase "survival of the fittest."

Oleg Karensky son of Russian liberal reformer Alexander Kerensky who envisaged a democratic Russia after the Tzar was deposed,(possibly a topic for the Alternate history thread.) part contracted the first four level motorway interchange in the United Kingdom where junction 15 of the M5 intersects J20 of the M4 in Almondsbury in Avon near the Severn Bridge crossing. Both Oleg and his then 89 year old father were present at its opening ceremony in the early 60's (cant remember the exact year offhand.)

There are no roundabouts in America (AFAIK) but the word 'roundabout' was coined in the UK by an American (previously they were called gyratory circuses).

Actually, Thande, I live in a city with a roundabout, and it can't be the only one.

That's why I put AFAIK.

Well WYK is JPW. :-)

There are a few "roundabouts" where I live now as well. I've never actually had to drive where they are, but I read about them a lot in the paper. I had to drive in a few once when I went to visit a friend out of state about 7 years ago, and I didn't really like it. Give me an intersection any day.

Yesterday was 05-05-05

In most of the rest of the world dates are
written with the day first and then followed
by the month.Therefore November 9th in other
parts of the world was actually 9/11.

Yes, whenever I talk about 9/11 in German, I start saying "Ninth (of...)" before remembering that it was Eleventh of September, and then switch around clumsily.

Eleanor Roosevelt was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt who in turn was the fifth cousin of
Eleanor's husband Franklin Roosevelt.
George H.W.Bush and George W.Bush were the first
father and son to be elected President since
John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln both served in the Black Hawk War.
Jefferson Davis was the former son-in-law of
President Zachary Taylor.General Richard Taylor,CSA,one of the last Confederate Generals to surrender at the end of the Civil War was the
brother-in-law of President Davis.
The last shot of the Civil War was not fired in
Virginia or even on American soil but off the coast of Alaska.
Ironically the Confederacy won the last naval battle.