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I got this paper at school today with a lot of interesting facts that I have to memorize for a quiz tomorrow!! I thought I'd post them here! LOL

Interesting Obscure Facts[list][*]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; "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.
[*]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.[/list]