Got this from another list and thought I would pass it on ---
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THINGS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW .......
. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
. There are more chickens than people in the world.
. 2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.
. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
* 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.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
* There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
* A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
* A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
* The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
* A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.
* A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
* Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother.
* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
* More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
* Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
* If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language.
* The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
start.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only
one row of the keyboard.
* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
* A snail can sleep for 3 years.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Does that one really
surprise any of us?)
* Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of
1000 & a size of 108.7 acres.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* No president of the United states was an only child.
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
In His Service,
Allen R. Cook - Cookie
Outpost Chaplain
Belton A/G -- Belton, Missouri
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