Almonds are a member of the peach family. 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. 

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. Just like some people I know! A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 

A snail can sleep for three years. ( So can I ! ) 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

Butterflies taste with their feet. 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

There are more chickens than people in the world. 

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

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

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. (Talk about somebody being bored. ) 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

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

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

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

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

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

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. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 

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

"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 sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. 

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

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). 

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." 

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 

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

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins. 

Now you know everything!

contributed by nola