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    Lightbulb Now 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

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    The winter of '32 and birth of Churchill were pretty good tid-bits of knowledge. Thanks for sharing!.

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    this is a fun read. thanks lab!
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    Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.

    Eat is the only word in the English language that can be re-arranged with the same letters into its past tense. Ate.

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    that one about the cruise ship moving only 6 inches for every gallon was kinda cool, alarming at the same rate. not that im an activist or anything but there has to be a more efficient way of doign things so as not to waste.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Korean&Proud
    that one about the cruise ship moving only 6 inches for every gallon was kinda cool, alarming at the same rate. not that im an activist or anything but there has to be a more efficient way of doign things so as not to waste.

    K&P
    its not that much of a waste considering how much you are moving. just think if everyone bought their own jetski and how much gas it would take to move the same amount of people the distance. granted, there is still probably a better fuel source out there...

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    Human BLOOD

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    Quote Originally Posted by mithril
    its not that much of a waste considering how much you are moving. just think if everyone bought their own jetski and how much gas it would take to move the same amount of people the distance. granted, there is still probably a better fuel source out there...
    true I guess I didnt think about it that way. and human blood lol? where'd that come from?

    K&P

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    Just kidding... or am I? Anyways, being a Merchant Mariner is one of my more enjoyable diversions and I mostly work on gas-turbine tankers. They are much cleaner and very efficient, but are notoriously expensive. They don't make much profit with that kind of overhead. FYI, the Queen Elizabeth 2 is 70,327 tons, 963 feet long, 105 feet wide. It has 32 feet of draft. It has a 25 - 28.5 knots cruising speed (maximum 32.5 knots). Service speed is achievable using only 7 of the 9 engines.

    There is a problem though with the 1 gal/6 inch fact. This is on the website:

    Fuel Consumption:

    18.05 tons per hour, or 433 tons per day.

    This is equal to six of the ship's swimming pools.

    The ship's fuel oil tank capacity of 4,381.4 tonnes is sufficient for 10 days' sailing at 32.5 knots, equalling 7,800 miles.

    One gallon of fuel will move the ship 49.5 feet; with the previous steam turbine engines, one gallon of fuel moved the ship 36 feet.

    This is probably because of the variation of fuel usage between starting from a stop or cruising at 25 kts.

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    I find that to be very interesting reading. Although I believe there may be some inacuracies in the list of facts. Not that I want to be combative, more like a general notice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy1
    I find that to be very interesting reading. Although I believe there may be some inacuracies in the list of facts. Not that I want to be combative, more like a general notice.
    yeah...this was just one of those lists floating around the web....as with anything else, you shouldn't believe everything you read

    anyone who would like to dispute any of these is welcomed to ammend the thread with corrections.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy1
    I find that to be very interesting reading. Although I believe there may be some inacuracies in the list of facts. Not that I want to be combative, more like a general notice.
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