Did You Know?

Here are some facts most sane people are unaware of.

- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

- A snail can sleep for three years.

- 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.

- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.

- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

- Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.

- No word in the English language rhymes with month.

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

- Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand,
"lollipop" with your right.

- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.

- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

- The words 'race car' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (also known as palindromes).

- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch face is 10:10.

- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

- There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.

- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life. ( I don't buy that one!)

- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.

- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

- It's impossible to lick your elbow.

- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.

- Rats and horses can't vomit.

- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language... try it!

- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.

- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.

- Most lipstick contains fish scales.

- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

NOW DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?


OK, Honestly did you try to lick your elbow?