Elizabeth's Landing Community Association

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

By Carry
Question everything

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

Oh Yea...

Date: Mon Apr 16 14:01:55 2001
Posted By: Joe McLeod, Group Engineer, Advanced Services, Charter Communications
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 986785810.As
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Message:


This is a fallacy. There was, in fact, a full moon in February, 1865. It occurred on 1865 February 10 at 16:27 UTC.

The specific chart is the USNO 1865 Moon Phases document.

This is not to say, however, that it is impossible for February to miss the full phase. The moon phases cycle every 29.5 days. Februrary, with 28 days (and 29 on a leap year), does miss a phase periodically.

In fact 1866, 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961 did not have a full phase.

In 1972, a leap year, the full moon occurred on 02/29 at 03:12 UTC.

As recently as 1999, there was no full moon during February... 1999 Moon Phase.

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department


http://mach.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_moonphases.pl?year=1865&ZZZ=END


Re Searcher,



By Re Searcher
Two down...

It has been proven that goldfish can navagate mazes for the reward of food in a timley manner that gets better each time the mase is run till a platform of time is established. Goldfish's memories are substantially longer than three seconds. Well over minutes!

By Re Searcher
Wrong again!

It's easy to cut and paste something you see on the web. It is ofcourse more time consuming to actually research what you're cutting and pasting as facts. For example ''Dragonflies only live 24hrs''. Do some research, dragonflies live up to several months.

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/information/Anisoptera.html


Someone wrote it it must be true... Sheeze!


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