AndyT
02-07-2003, 11:10
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If you are a car driver, 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.
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.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump.'
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
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.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
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.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If you are a car driver, 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.
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.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump.'
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
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.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
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.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.