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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.

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.

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; 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.

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! OK, so it's more than you really wanted to know........live with it
 
...and a total waste of time:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. That's 3.05* per ridge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ...each of which will help to totally ignore you if you call it.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. Good damn thing.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. ...and it spends the entire time eating and mating. Hmmm.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. This is the same animal that will gladly eat its own poop. Enough said.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Which made Jiffy a poorly considered name for a brand of condoms in the 1980s, if you really think about it...

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. Sharks, while they won't eat their own poop, will gladly scare it out of other fishes.

A snail can sleep for three years. During which time, it neither eats nor mates - which makes the fact that they can in fact mate with themselves convenient. This is a leading cause of blindness in snails.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. On the bottom was a tag-line that said, "I'll make you a sofa you can't refuse."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. All four states of matter are listed somewhere else - can you name them?

Almonds are a member of the peach family. ...but they never get invited to the reunions because they married outside of the faith.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. They also have only one orifice used for both excreting and reproducing.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. ...at which point, they become largely useless and begin to atrophy, as the kid is wheeled around the world in a sport utility stroller.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. Most cat vocalizations translate into "I'm ignoring you." Dogs send 10 different messages, including "Feed me," "I wanna go," and "Your leg makes me hot."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". So? The abbreviation for the Big Sky Country ends with "mt" - and BEGINS with "mt"

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. This year, between 35 and 150 animmals will become extinct each day.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. ...and I will be stuck at the end of this line at the DMV.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. The average American also has only one testicle. Think about it.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. ...and he had to take them away from his kid for running around the studio with them.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. This is the case because they frittered away a bunch of them on Millinocket, Skohegan, and Macwahoc.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right. ..and neither should be typed into Google by your 12-year-old kid doing research for a school project.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts. ...two of which were returned for store credit.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. This is approximately the same mileage I got towing a Renault Alliance from Seattle to Riverside, CA and back using a borrowed 1974 Jeep and an implement trailer.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average 18 year old working at McDonalds can actually find 26 more.

There are more chickens than people in the world. ...which makes it all the better that we eat them rather than the other way around.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. Betty's maiden name was Betty Jo McBricker. Wilma's was Wilma Pebble. Seriously.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. ...but what seems like subtle irony is, upon reflection, simply pointless tripe.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. That's small beer compared to the fact that Muammar Gaddafi was CONCEIVED in a ladies' room - in a Tripoli bus station.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. ...but men make better rally codrivers because they have less trouble peeing standing up.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. New pennies are much more hazardous than old pennies if swallowed, given the large amount of zinc that they contain.

There's an hour I'll never get back...

K
 
Originally posted by Blix:
You missed one...
Some species of turtles can breathe through their butt.

That's nothing.

Some humans speak through them.
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George Roffe
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More information of value to someone.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
 
Since this is all about useless info,
I need to test my new e-mail configuration so this is a test message.

And a praying mantis is not the only male animal that loses its head over sex.

Tom
 
Bear with me here, one last test...
I think I have a handle on UBB code.


[This message has been edited by Tom Donnelly (edited February 06, 2004).]
 
Originally posted by ddewhurst:
More information of value to someone.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes......

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.


Something doesn't ring right about this.....



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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
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Jake, are you trying to tell us that an orgasm of 30 minutes or less is pleasure.

Different strokes for different folks
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David
 
Man, it must be cold where you guys are. I spent the evening in my 40 degF garage getting my stuff together for a test-n-tune day tomorrow.

Double regional at Firebird next weekend; the season is upon us.

Good luck and hang tight guys, only six more weeks until winter is over
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Ty
 
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