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Chapter 1 - thats all foalks!

well, you dont, but, read this, and you will! (No longer on shot!! i added a second list!!! ^-^) a colection of random facts that you didn't know. i make u smarter

Chapter 1 - thats all foalks!

Chapter 1 - thats all foalks!


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 KNOW EVERYTHING

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fuzzyavalanchefob on November 2, 2006, 12:04:47 AM

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fuzzyavalanchefobI just learned without going to school.*faves*

_ren_tao_fan_ on August 15, 2006, 12:34:50 AM

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_ren_tao_fan_kewl!

inuyasha_naruto_lover on July 29, 2006, 8:13:47 AM

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inuyasha_naruto_lovercool interesting ^-^ -favs-

inuyasha902105454 on March 18, 2006, 12:24:41 AM

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inuyasha9021054542 things gold fish have a longer memory but neon tetras have no memory.and you have knee caps when your born thats why you can crawl wen your an infint. no ofensbut i just know this.

FFXgirl on February 7, 2006, 8:40:31 AM

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FFXgirlI only know 1 think I'm stupid!!!! Definatly favs!!!

ShamanQueen1101 on December 30, 2005, 10:05:36 PM

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ShamanQueen1101WOW!! I never knew some of those random facts *faves*^^

chanok-ee on November 11, 2005, 10:51:31 AM

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chanok-eeI see the Chinese are very,very busy.And by the way, very nice pictures.

gohstann on November 5, 2005, 2:50:38 AM

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gohstannI knew some of that stuff. Like if you some how do sneez with your eyes opend that your eye balls would fly out of your head! I didn't know about the chicens, but there are more bugs than any animal. Thats why I toled my mom bugs controle the world, BEWAIR THE BUGS! She said I was crazy.
*faves, and runs of to tail sister about the pinuts*

Whatsername on November 1, 2005, 10:23:09 PM

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Whatsernamenow i know everything, not that i didn't before! great *favs*

Erushi-Hime on November 1, 2005, 9:13:36 PM

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Erushi-HimeWow... those are some COOL random facts!! *faves*