Think you know it all????

[jimbob]

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.​

 

[Master Vigil]

I wonder how there was no full moon during that month. That is definitely intriguing.

Thanks Jimbob!!!!

 

[retrorich]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.​

And how was that established--a government funded research project?

 

[Jaymes]

Actually, they have managed to domesticate foxes over the past 45 years in Siberia through selective breeding--though they look more like strange dogs now.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_foxes.html

 

[Lightkeeper]

We used to have a fox ranch in the family and we had some pet foxes.

 

[jimbob]

Foxes have actually been tamed for longer than that. I agree with you that there were probably some more domestications than it says, but foxes have been domesticated. Some Kings used to keep them around at the dinner table to use as napkins, (they used dogs too, but they prefered the bushy tail of the fox to wipe their mouths.)

 

[Jaymes]

Whoa now, regular foxes are nowhere NEAR domestication! They're as wild as anything else. That's why it's only legal to have one type of fox (a fennec, I think it's claled) as a pet.

 

[kreeden]

This list was posted on another forum I visit , and the domesticated animal part lead to quite a debate . I think it depends upon how broad a defination one gives , as it usually does with these list .

 

[Saw11_2000]

I do know it all! I'm atheist!

I'm a little skeptical of these ones

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

 

[jimbob]

I cant back up any of these statements folks. i just found them on the web and thought they would make a fun post. Im sure some of them aren't completely true.

 

[jimbob]

Whoa now, regular foxes are nowhere NEAR domestication! They're as wild as anything else. That's why it's only legal to have one type of fox (a fennec, I think it's claled) as a pet.

When i said kings, i meant kings of the middle ages, not the kings of today.

 

[Jaymes]

Foxes in the middle ages were no more domesticated than the foxes of today...

 

[Quoth The Raven]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.​

And how was that established--a government funded research project?

No, the government funded research project found that - like a rat - a goldfish can be trained to run a maze, and therefore has a memory span of longer than three seconds.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

I do know it all! I'm atheist!

I'm a little skeptical of these ones

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Try sneezing with your eyes open.

Across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill are listed as follows:

Arkansas,Michigan,Florida,Texas,Iowa,Wisconsin,California,Minnesota,Oregon,Kansas,West Virginia,Nevada,Nebraska,Colorado,North Dakota,Delaware,Pennsylvania,New Jersey,Georgia,Connecticut,Massachusetts,Maryland,Carolina,Hampshire,Virginia and New York. Way short of 50 there.

I just sat down and read them all with a magnifying glass...I need to get out and do something useful:areyoucra .

 

[jimbob]

Foxes in the middle ages were no more domesticated than the foxes of today...

Do you have proof of that

 

[Jaymes]

Do you have proof they were domesticated? I've found absolutely no sources suggesting they have been.

 

[Druidus]

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Most definately false. Work it out. We'll assume the population of China is 1.5 billion, and the world population is 6.5 billion. In the world population, a baby is born, roughly every thirty seconds. We will assume that the male-female ratio is 50/50, and that every person covers a space of .5 metres squared.

6.5/1.5=4.33

4.33*30=130, or two minutes and ten seconds.

Every two minutes, roughly, a baby is born in China. Therefore, we must see how many people can move past you in two minutes, assuming a stride of .5 metres per second. Easily enough, we find that 200 people pass you in two minutes, and one baby is born. Following this, we can see that eventually, the line would end, because more people pass you than are born, and every time people pass you, it takes more time for the rest to procreate. However, it would be a long line. Several others in that list are false as well, but some are true.

Thank you for the list.

 

[Saw11_2000]

Well, besides the obvious fact that you can't really give birth to a baby when you're walking in a line, and even if you could, they would get walked over by the people behind them, I agree with Druidus.

 

[jimbob]

I agree with Druidus too. Shucks guys, i didn't realize so many of these things were correct, do you forgive me?

 

[Saw11_2000]

No!

I'm Shunning You.