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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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.

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’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes). Also: "A man, a plan, a canal--Panama!"

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

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.

OK Mark, You asked for it...
It takes twelve bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
The busiest pay phone in the US-used over 270 times a day- is in Chicago's main bus terminal.
Michael Jackson was awarded his first gold record when he was 11 years old.
On average "Baby Blue" whales gain 200 pounds per day.
Most experts believe "Jack The Ripper" was left handed.
Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine more than any other actress.
#1 jukebox song of all time, according to industry sources "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.
A tuna can swim 100 miles a day.
The Earth weighs 6 septillion tons.
Frogs hop faster then toads.
The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
According to a study, the average American is a 32.7 year old woman who likes potato chips, weighs 134 pounds, believes in the devil, and has sex about 5 times a month.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest.

...5 times a month...

...5 times a month...

[wanders away, looking puzzled]

Oh, I beg to differ. Via Roger Miller

"Roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar's sweet and so is maple syrple
I'm the seventh of a seventh son
My pappy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun"

Eric

Well I have heard but can't confirm,

A Tick can wait up to 7 years to attach itself to it's host.

A Golf Ball has 360 indentions.

The microwave was discovered because sailors left their coffee cups close the the radar transmitter and the coffee kept warm.

These are fascinating. One has visions (nightmares, probably) of teams of researchers being paid Federal money to find out these things. Oh, and I hasve one: Proportionately, Dolly Parton has the same measurements as Barbie. Or vice versa.

Joe

Sex five times a month.....WOW Where do they get the energy.

Sex five times a month with whom?

Joe

Hey Mark if you break open a peach stone guess what is inside......... an almond.

They say Cleopatra was bitten on the bosum by her asp. Nice trick if you can do it.

From "Uncle Johns Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader":

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn it's head.

English word with the most different meanings in the dictionary: "Set" with 464. (second place is "Run")

In Germany, a yuppie is known as a Schicki Micki.

Ohio has 22 rollercoasters. The most of any state.

Beauty fact: Most lipstick contains fish scales.

The London Bridge has never fallen down.

The Roman emperor Nero played the bagpipe.

Mosquitos have teeth.

The index finger is the most sensitive finger on your hand.

The story of Cinderella has been made into a movie 58 times.

40% of people killed from falling off a horse are drunk.

The three best known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley.

Why would I want to bite a mummy's boob?

Hi Mark,

"...5 times a month...

...5 times a month...

[wanders away, looking puzzled]"

Not to worry, Mark---I think I understand what you're trying to say. Have your wife call me. ;\) She Cat.

ROFLMAO!

What did you call me?

You all are just so FUNNY!

Thanks

Your Aussie friend

MICHELE MY BELL hah hah!

5 times a day? Not even in college. Oh... I misread. 5 times a MONTH. Well, yeah...

A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself. The Declaration of Independence (the very official copy in the Rotunda of the National Archives) is written on parchment, not paper. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. A 2x4 is actually 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" . 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. Every person has a unique tongue print. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Irony. Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange, purple, or silver, or month. (Debated, as I don't think that sliver is a rhyme for silver, or pimple a good rhyme with purple, etc.) The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill. Scissors as we know them today (well, pretty much) were invented in Rome in about 100 AD (or CE, if you want to be politically correct). If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot. Most scorpions will glow under ultraviolet light. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.' The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo

There are a number of words that rhyme with month, such as hunt, punt and shunt, plus a slang word I (won't) print here. Also runt, bunt, etc.

If you take all the veins, arteries, and capillaries in a man's body, and lay them end to end...he will die. 99% of the male cigarette smokers who try Camels go back to women. Scientific research has been found to be a leading cause of cancer in lab rats. There is a woman giving birth every two minutes, and she should be stopped. It takes more calories to eat lettuce than the lettuce contains.

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

These aren't rhymes, though---they're near-rhymes (same thing in modern country). Same with cat/bath or kiss/wish. They're just about universally accepted in songs now, but they sure wouldn't have worked 100 years ago...nor with my old writing teacher.

To me they are perfect rhymes, when you say them, they sound alike.(unless I'm not pronouncing month right) Not like kiss/wish or cat/bath, they don't sound alike at all.

I don't know Mark, I'm coming up with 117 ridges on my dime.

Wait my dime doesn't have any ridges at all !!

oops, it is a nickel not a dime, haven't got paid yet ...