Our Sense of Humor

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• 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 read “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.
• 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 'mt'.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• In the last 4,000 years of human history, no new animals have been domesticated.
• If the population of China walked by you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The average American 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 cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.