Thanks to my good friend, George Curtis, Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves provides you with a LOT of bar bet material. If this be (fair & balanced) trivializing, so be it.
SO YOU THINK 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
