Tidbits and Trivia.

[Dr. DOS]

So You think you Know everything?........ I thought a few of these were pretty interesting....

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.
AlCapone'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. (Wierd... I could only find 26 or so)
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.
LeonardoDa 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 BettyRubble in the FlintstonesChewables 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.
WinstonChurchill 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.


............Now you know everything

[yoda313]

Hello,

Ok where did you copy and paste those from???

Or are you so bored at work that you looked up each one indiviually???

Kevin


--Besides, this is a major rip off of the "did you know" thread! --

[Capmaster]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

Sensible ......

<ducks from canuck muckluck being hurled in this direction by Grimey>

[Cobra]

That could have been 45 quality posts in my "Did you know" thread...

[Dr. DOS]

That could have been 45 quality posts in my "Did you know" thread...

Damn.... why didn't I think of that... wait ... edit time...

[CoasterCreator]

HEY ..I also seen alot of them from Sting chesse packets ( at least that is where I was posting my did you know facts)

question on the outside and answer in the inside

[yoda313]

That could have been 45 quality posts in my "Did you know" thread...

Damn.... why didn't I think of that... wait ... edit time...

Hello,

Ahem... To quote myself:

--Besides, this is a major rip off of the "did you know" thread! --

Yeah Cobra had a good thread going and now you started your own!

Kevin

[Dr. DOS]

--Besides, this is a major rip off of the "did you know" thread! --



Yeah Cobra had a good thread going and now you started your own!

Kevin

Kevin.... go F--- yourself

[yoda313]

--Besides, this is a major rip off of the "did you know" thread! --



Yeah Cobra had a good thread going and now you started your own!

Kevin

Kevin.... go F--- yourself

Hello,

Hmm.... Looks like I hit a nerve



Kevin

--just kidding --

[CoasterCreator]

Kevin.... go F--- yourself

[thecoalman]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

I saw this proved wrong on Mythbusters.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

See they do want to be the 51'st state.

[CoasterCreator]

I always wondered about that [fish story] they would stay in the feeding area ( in the corner ) and also would know where to go and stay for feeding ( and its more than 3 seconds I make them suffer and stay on that corner

[thecoalman]

I always wondered about that [fish story] they would stay in the feeding area ( in the corner ) and also would know where to go and stay for feeding ( and its more than 3 seconds I make them suffer and stay on that corner

It was with food that they proved it wrong but over many weeks. They had clear plexiglass dividers with one hole that was colored on the edge. The goldfish had to swim through the divider to get the food. The kept adding more dividers and the fish progressivley got better at it each time.

[Grimey]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

thats not true. I'm looking at a 2 dollar bill right now, and the flag over the parliament buildings is clearly a Canadian flag.

51st state my ass

[Capmaster]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

thats not true. I'm looking at a 2 dollar bill right now, and the flag over the parliament buildings is clearly a Canadian flag.

51st state my ass

Maybe they already fixed it, hockey boy

[SquirrelDip]

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

thats not true. I'm looking at a 2 dollar bill right now, and the flag over the parliament buildings is clearly a Canadian flag.

51st state my ass

Agree - not true...

See: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

was not an American flag, but the Red Ensign (which, although it was never Canada's official flag, served as Canada's recognized flag before being replaced by the Maple Leaf Flag in 1965)

[Cobra]

Now, now old chaps - do be good sports, whatwhat! Stiff upper lip! Oh, yes!

[SquirrelDip]

Now, now old chaps - do be good sports, whatwhat! Stiff upper lip! Oh, yes!

It's an identity thing...

[vitualis]

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

It depends on what you mean. Lots of bones or parts of bones don't ossify until later in life. However, the cartilaginous mould is already there.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

It depends on what you mean by rhyme. I don't think that it is as strict as simple first consonent substitution as otherwise there are a hell of a lot of words that don't "rhyme" with each other. Personally I think that "pilfer" rhymes with "silver"...

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

Your eyes grow.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Actually, your stomach would have turned over its epithelium in that time rather than "mucus".

Regards.

[Rookie64]

There's no BettyRubble in the FlintstonesChewables Vitamins.

Did ya know that the original cast of The Flinstones are all dead?

Well, except Mr Slate...and the 2nd voice for Betty Rubble (Gerry Johnson) and The Great Gazoo (Harvey Korman) but they both joined the cast a few years into the show.


Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Barney (both of 'em), Dino, Bamm-Bamm, 1st Betty, Hoppy and Wilma's mother are all dead

Wilma & Pebbles were the voice of Jean Vander Pyl
Bamm-Bamm & Hoppy were the voice of Don Messick (also did additonal characters)
Original Betty Rubble was the voice of Bea Benaderet (a few would know her from The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres...she also did voices for Looney Tune/Bugs Bunny characters)

There were 2 guys doing the voice of Barney Rubble - Daws Butler and Mel Blanc.

Mel Blanc, of course, is the voice of several other popular cartoon characters - Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, PorkyPig, Tweety Bird & Sylvester, Pepe LePew, Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, Marvin Martian, Tom and Jerry...and many others.

[VCDHunter]

Now, now old chaps - do be good sports, whatwhat! Stiff upper lip! Oh, yes!

Sorry, old bean, but I cant seem to understand your banter !