>     
>    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 'race car,' '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.
>     
>
>    ...................Now you know everything! 

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