Things To Make You Smarter....

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THINGS TO MAKE YOU SMARTER....
(Here are some facts you may not have been aware of)....Oh and Ray I know this is old right!!

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

No word in the English language rhymes with month. (or ''orange'')

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

”Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, ''lollipop'' with your right.

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

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The words 'racecar' and 'kayak'' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face is 10:10.

The winter of 1932 was so col d that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility".

A ''jiffy'' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

It's impossible to lick your own elbow.

Rats and horses can not vomit.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

NOW DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?

ok........HONESTLY.........DID YOU TRY TO LICK YOUR ELBOW
 
Two points.
You almost had it right.
Not all continents start and end with the same letter.
North and South America.
True, America is the same but, these two continents are known as North and South America.
You are correct about watches being displayed at 10:10 but, it wasan't always that way.
For years, all clocks and watches were displayed with the time set at 8:22.
Do you know why this was.
I do, and just wonder if any one else knows why.
 
3 things: (1) A ducks quack does echo (2) indivisibilitity has 6 i's, not 5 (3) other words that are the same forwards and backwards are radar, rotor, solos, and I'm sure many more.
 
:) yes, unfortunately i must admit...i did try to lick my elbo
 
MrWilson said:
:) yes, unfortunately i must admit...i did try to lick my elbo
I did try it to but I did it!!!!!!!!!!!
I think there is somthing worng with me OK OK iv dislocted my right sholder 19 times in the last 4 years and it can pop in and out now, witch is not a good thing it makes Rock climbing so damn hard
 

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