Southside High School,
Selma, Alabama
So
You Thing You Know Everything
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SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
 | 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 Chewable
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 do know everything! |
