So, you think you know everything?

[Skools Out]

So, you think you know everything?






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 Chewables 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

[TheTinMan]

"The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it"

This is true. I used to be a Merchant Marine and was on a 948' miltary supply ship, this ship could do 30+ kts.!

At full speed it would burn about 4,000 barrels a day!

1 barrel = 42 gallons = 168,000 gallons every 24 hrs!

Do the math, it comes out to just UNDER half a foot per gallon!

....and you think your carbed OB sucks fuel!

[TheTinMan]

Here she is....she has 7 identical sisters too! I made 5 trips to the Persian Gulf on her for the first gulf war.

[TheTinMan]

The shipping company Sealand had 8 of these built in the early 70's. Didn't take them too long before they realized they were too expensive to run due to fuel consumption.

They sold them to the US government and MSC (Military Sealift Command) converted them to what you see above.

One of them actually still holds the Trans Pacific speed record!
Averaged over 33kts from Yokahama to the West coast of the US, just over 6 days!

[TheTinMan]

Oh, steam plants puttin out 120,000HP!

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
of the alphabet.
No "R" No "E" and no "D"

so the quick brown fox has to jump over a lazy RED dog ;D

Yes I took a typing class

[Skools Out]

there's an RED in the first one R=bRown, E=thE, D=Dog.

Originally Posted by Skools Out

there's an RED in the first one R=bRown, *E=thE, D=Dog.

NoooOOOOooooooOooooo! ;D ??? ;D

Originally Posted by Skools Out

there's an RED in the first one R=bRown, *E=thE, D=Dog.

I should have paid more attention in tYpiNg glass ;D