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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SunKing on November 10, 2003, 04:33:24 PM
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Think you know everything...?
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. A snail can sleep for three years.
8. Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
9. All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
10. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
11. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
12. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies taste with their feet.
13. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
14. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in
the letters "mt".
15. February 1865 is the only month in recorded
history not to have a full moon.
16. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
17. If the population of China walked past you, in
single file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
18. If you are an average American, in your whole
life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
19. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
20. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
21. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
22. No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, or purple.
23. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the arliament
building is an American flag.
24. Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
25. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
26. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; lollipop" with your right.
28. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
29. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
30. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
32. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
33. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara
Falls froze completely solid.
34.The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the
same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
35. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
36. There are more chickens than people in the world.
37. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
38. There are two words in the English language that
have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
39. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
40. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
41. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
42. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
43. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
44. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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Originally posted by SunKing
Think you know everything...?
4. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Did the neo-cons put you up to this?
LIES LIES LIES and more LIES!!
A Dragonfly can live up to 7 years.... once it starts to mate... some species only live 24 hours... however, others may live up to several months.
http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/frameset.htm?faq&faq
http://www.cat1234.com/id174.htm
http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/wildinfo/dflies.htm
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Bush has GOT to be behind that little fish story, eh Nexus?
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Bush has GOT to be behind that little fish story, eh Nexus?
Bush and his goose stepping jack boot storm troopers are behind everything that is evil in America!
It's by time you all realize this! The proof is irrefutable!
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3. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
More lies!!!!
(http://www.grandmasattic.com.au/images/nvcroctongue.jpg)
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16. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Gerbils?
Pot-belly pigs?
Canaries?
Aquarium fish?
Definition of domesticate:
(a)To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.
(b)To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.
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wow. great useless trivia!!!
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23. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the arliament
building is an American flag.
nope..not true..
The flag flying above the Canadian Parliament Buildings on the back of the Canadian two dollar bill is not a U.S. flag, it is a Canadian "Red Ensign" flag, which was the Canadian national flag used when the Parliament Buildings were built, and all the way up to 1965, when the modern red "Maple Leaf" Canadian flag was adopted.
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11. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Sounds Like a Rook to me:aok
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I'll take "Crap I'll never need to know for a thousand, Alex".
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Someone has been drinking a lot of snapple. :D
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12. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies taste with their feet.
I'll take non-sequiturs for $1000
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Originally posted by SunKing
10. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Actually, they both share the same genera, Prunus. The family is Rosaceae.
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Originally posted by davidpt40
Gerbils?
Define "domestication"....I'm not so sure the use of gerbils in certain "activities" is the same thing.
;)
I didn't notice the fact that it is impossible to lick ones own elbows.
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16. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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The French?
:aok
pre-emptive reply: calm down I'm half French.
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Originally posted by SunKing
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Doesn't everyone know this?
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45 : It is impossible to lick your own elbow. :)
Go on.....try it, you know you want to :)
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Originally posted by SunKing
Think you know everything...?
19. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
22. No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, or purple.
45. It is impossible to lick your own elbow.
19. I can sneeze with your eyes open, it's easy...
22.
Roses are red
and violets are purple,
sugar is sweet
and so is maple surple.
- Roger Miller, Lyrics to "Dang Me"
45. I can, my wife says it's my finest quality.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Well... some poeple I know...
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
19. I can sneeze with your eyes open, it's easy...
Well yeah, but then you'll have to fart. There is only so much skin, you know...
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
19. I can sneeze with your eyes open, it's easy...
Ya but can you sneeze with your eyes open.