Thought you knew everything?

Here's more Totally useless but fun things you can throw into the middle of a conversation. Hey Caesar Romero was tall. (That's a movie line and probably only my family will appreciate it)

  1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 
  2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.  
  3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 
  4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
  5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
  6. There are more chickens than people in the world. 
  7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 
  8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 
  9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 
  10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. 
  11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 
  12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 
  13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. 
  14. Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
  15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 
  16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. 
  17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 
  18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" 
  19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
  20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
  21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 
  22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 
  23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 
  24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."  
  25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 
  26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.. 
  27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 
  28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. . 
  29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 
  30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 
  31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
  32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 
  34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.  
  35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  36. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  37. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  38. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
  39. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. 
  40. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 
  41. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.  
  42. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 
  43. A crocodile cannot stick its own tongue out.
  44. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish #1 for the animal having the most taste buds. 
  45. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field
  46. Butterflies taste with their feet. 
  47. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  48. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

     

 From Tiggerr.  Reading this I was reminded of an episode of West Wing when  President Barlett, known for asking his staff difficult questions, asked "Only three words in stardard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. What are they?"  I kept yelling out dweeb, but he must not have heard because that wasn't one of them.  Apparently it's not an official word.

What? You don't know what they are???

And no it's not  Dwain the bathtub, I'm dwowning!  Sorry wrong joke.

Dwell, dwindle, dwarf  

Yes there are different forms of them like dwelling and some really bizarre obtuse words. So if you want to email me with them,  I'll post them here OK., but you have to give me a definition.