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So you think you know everything!

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 46yrs • M •
A CTL of 1 means that Restless Mind is a contributing member of Captain Cynic.
So you think you know everything!

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)


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


"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)


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


The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)


The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)


STRENGTH is the longest word in English with only one vowel.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)



There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)



A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)


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. (I know some people that could do this too.)


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.



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, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.


Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!


Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


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. (Good thing he did that)


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


There are more chickens than people in the world.

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


Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything!



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 31yrs • M •
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That is awsome you should put more random facts i thought it was cool.

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"Beware of the dog"
 36yrs • M •
A CTL of 1 means that ChokingV is a contributing member of Captain Cynic.
i doubt the majority of these now, only because i know for a fact that the goldfish one is wrong. mythbusters anybody?

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"i don't like the idea of "nothingness", it makes me anxious"
 41yrs • M •
A CTL of 1 means that Wyote is a contributing member of Captain Cynic.
quote:
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.


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.


And now we know everything

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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle"
 36yrs • F •
A CTL of 1 means that washingmypirate is a contributing member of Captain Cynic.
Mythbusters YEY!!!!!!!

I suppose it depends which part of the world you are in as to what the cycles of the moon are at that given moment in time.

Have you ever heard of blue moons. Now that is interesting. There are two types of blue moon. I will let you guys discuss it first if you like.

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"Shengising Nugget"
So you think you know everything!
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