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 ’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 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!

A nice contribution from my friend since 1968  Carlton  in Charlotte NC  USA