So, you think you know everything? Add this to your database …The school year is just days from being over, and it brings to mind the popular lesson, "Everything I Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten." It also reminded me of a fun little e-mail message that landed in my file earlier this year. I reprinted a few of my favorites from the list, which is longer than anyone really needs. Read, enjoy, and then forget, (like I did):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 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.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".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 six months waiting at red lights.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple.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 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 anda 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's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.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!
