{"id":19655,"date":"2014-04-03T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatherben.se\/wordpress\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T16:04:03","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatherben.se\/wordpress\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"DID YOU KNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dime\u00a0 has 118 ridges around the edge.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0 cat has 32 muscles in each ear.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0 crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0 dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ”jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1\/100th of a second.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A shark\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 snail can sleep for three years.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Al\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

All\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $5 bill.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Almonds\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are a member of the peach family.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

An\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Babies\u00a0are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6\u00a0 years of age.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Butterflies\u00a0 taste with their feet.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Cats\u00a0 have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

”Dreamt”\u00a0 is the only English word that ends in the letters ”mt”.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full\u00a0 moon.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If\u00a0\u00a0the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If\u00a0you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of\u00a0 6 months waiting at red lights.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Maine<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is the only state whose name is just one syllable.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

No\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 purple.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

On a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American flag.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Our\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 growing.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Peanuts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are one of the ingredients of dynamite .<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Rubber\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bands last longer when refrigerated.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

”Stewardesses”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ”lollipop” with your\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 right.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 burns.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 chocolate bar melted in his pocket.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sentence: ”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the alphabet.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 solid.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 words ’racecar,’ ’kayak’ and ’level’ are the same whether they are read left\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to right or right to left (palindromes).<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are more chickens than people in the world.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are only four words in the English language which end in ”dous”: tremendous,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ”abstemious” and ”facetious.”<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

There’s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Tigers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 have striped skin, not just striped fur.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

TYPEWRITER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 keyboard.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Winston\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Women\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 blink nearly twice as much as men.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Your\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 digest itself.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

………….Now\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 you know everything!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A nice contribution from my friend since 1968\u00a0 Carlton\u00a0 in Charlotte NC\u00a0 USA<\/em><\/p>\n

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