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pursuit3
25-09-2002, 21:44
1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6- There are more chickens than people in the world.

7- 2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

8- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched."

9- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building
is an American flag.

10- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

11- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

12- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

14- Almonds are a member of the peach family.

15- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

16- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

17 There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

18- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

19- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

20- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

21- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 1:50

22- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

23- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

24- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

25- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

26- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

27- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

28- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

29- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

30- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

31- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.(Presbyterian)

32- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

33- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

34- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

35- A ****roach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

36- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

37- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on
his tomb stone.

38- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

39- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

40- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

41- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

42- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

43- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

44- Women blink nearly twice as much as men

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

46- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
in the English language.

47- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
start.

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

49- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left.

50- A snail can sleep for 3 years.

51- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.

Director
30-09-2002, 23:26
My goldfish have much longer memories. You B........ only joking.