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sweetspot · 发表于 2006-9-5 11:21

**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.**

**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.**

**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 U.S.** **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**. **

**"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."**

**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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