•A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
•A crocodile can't stick out it's tongue.
•A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. Sorry kids, your pet doesn't know who your are, it's not a pet that's going to love you back.
•A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It's 1/100th of a second.
•Almonds are a member of the peach family. (Weird!)
•Babies are born without kneecaps.
•Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs have only 10.
•Maine is the only state that has just one syllable.
•No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Sorry poets, don't use these words.
•Our eyes are the same size from birth. (that is why some babies look like little aliens)
•Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
•The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
•There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. (I don't know all the ways)
•Tigers have striped skin, not JUST striped fur. Now I LOVE tigers and I didn't know that. The internet is fascinating.
•Women blink almost twice as much as men. I wonder why that is?
•Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. (Well that makes for a great story about an amazing man.)
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