Sep 20, 2004 23:29
+A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
+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
+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.
+"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
+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.
+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.
+The cruisem 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.
+There are more chickens than people in the world.
+Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
+Women blink nearly twice as much as men.