so i stumbled upon this nifty website. it taught me things i didn't know, and reminded me of things i already knew, cause i'm a fucking genius.  

  •   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 (that no longer exists), 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 in dynamite.
  •   Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  •   "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand;"lollipop" with your right.
  •   The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  •   The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
  •   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 Chewables 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.

i hope you learned something new! i did, but you know, that's just me. ;3