HOW WONDERFUL TO KNOW

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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for three years.
A duck's quake can't echo.
Al Capones's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All the State names 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 average American, in his whole life, will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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.
"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.
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.
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 words 'racecar,' 'kayak' 'level' and "Malayalam" 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. So do Zebras.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one periterrow of the keyboard.
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.

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fun facts

1. There are no rental cars in Bermuda.

2. A Russian man who has beard during the time of peter the great had to pay a special tax.

3. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in movie called psycho.

4. An earthquake on 16 -12-1811 caused part of Mississippi river to flow backwards.

5. The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

6. Children are more allergic to crock roaches than they are to cats.

7. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

8. One cubic mile of sea water contains about 50 pounds of gold.

9. Worcestershire sauce is basically anchovy ketchup.

10. In Kentucky it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

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GK - General Knowledge

Ants don't sleep .
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.