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1.

A dime has 118 ridges

around the edge.

2.

A cat has 32 muscles in

each ear.

3.

A crocodile cannot stick

out its tongue.

4. A dragonfly has a life

span of 24 hours.

5.

A goldfish has a memory

span of three seconds.

6. A "jiffy" is an actual

unit of time for 1/100th of a

second.

7.

A shark is the only fish

that can blink with both eyes. 8.

A snail can sleep for

three years.

9.

Al Capo ne's business

card said he was a used

furniture dealer.

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10.

All 50 states are listed

across the top of the Lincoln

Memorial on the back of the $5

bill.

11.

Almonds are a member of

the peach family.

12.

An ostrich's eye isbigger than its brain.

13.

Babies are born without

kneecaps; they don't appear

until the child reaches 2 to 6

years of age. 14.

Butterflies taste with

their feet.

15.

Cats have over one

hundred vocal sounds. 16.

Dogs only have about

10."Dreamt" is the only

English word that ends in the

letters "mt".

17.

February 1865 is the

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only month in recorded history

not to have a full moon.

18.

In the last 4,000 years,

no new animals have been

domesticated.

19.

If the population of

China walked past you, in

single file, the line wouldnever end because of the rate

of reproduction.

20.

If you are an average

American, in your whole life,

you will spend an average of 6months waiting at red lights.

21.

It's impossible to

sneeze with your eyes open.

22.

Maine is the only statewhose name is just one

syllable.

23.

Our eyes are always the

same size from birth, but our

nose and ears never stop

growing.

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24.

Peanuts are one of the

ingredients of dynamite.

25.

Rubber bands last longer

when refrigerated.

26.

"Stewardesses" is the

longest word typed with only

the left hand and "lollipop"with your right.

27.

The average person's

left hand does 56% of the

typing.

28. The cruise liner, QE2,

moves only six inches for each

gallon of die! sel that it

burns.

29.

The microwave wasinvented after a researcher

walked by a radar tube and a

chocolate bar melted in his

pocket.

30.

The sentence: "The quick

brown fox jumps over the lazy

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dog" uses every letter of the

alphabet.

31.

The winter of 1932 was

so cold that Niagara Falls

froze completely solid.

32.

The words 'racecar,'

'kayak' and 'level' are the

same whether they are readleft to right or right to left

(palindromes).

33.

There are 293 ways to

make change for a dollar.

34. There are more chickens

than people in the world.

35.

There are only four

words in the English language

which end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous,

stupendous, and hazardous.

36.

There are two words in

the English language that have

all five vowels in order:

"abstemious" and "facetious."

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37.

There's no Betty Rubble

in the Flintstones Chewable

Vitamins.

38.

Tigers have striped

skin, not just striped fur.

39.

TYPEWRITER is the

longest word that can be madeusing the letters only on one

row of the keyboard.

40.

Winston Churchill was

born in a ladies' room during

a dance. 41.

Women blink nearly twice

as much as men.

42.

Your stomach has to

produce a new layer of mucusevery two weeks; otherwise it

will digest itself.

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