How much do you really know???

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1. Rubberbands 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. The 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 (in USA) 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 was 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.
 

spiderman

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26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

You know this has been proven wrong, according to this show on the discovery channel " Mythbusters", goldish could be trained to react to colors and identify them as food.

lol i dont usually watch tv but when i do i watch some dumb stuff!

"It's Dominicans that have a memory span of 3 seconds,NOT Goldfish"!Cris Colon
 
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35. You can type Stewardesses with your right hand as well.

Here goes:

Stweadropn,sed.

Hmm... maybe not.
 

ricktoronto

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25. Nope:

Life span: The dragonfly spends most of its life as larvae, spending 1-3 years underwater. Flying adults have a relatively short life span. If lucky, they can survive for six or seven months in warm and dry climes. In the UK adults rarely live for more than a few weeks.
 

ricktoronto

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24. Maybe, from Yahoo Answers

Unfortunately, the official Sesame Workshop web site does not say where the names come from. We tried to contact our Muppet friends directly, but their handlers are very picky about what you can ask Bert and Ernie. Sadly, the origin of their monikers was not on the list of "approved questions." We can only conclude that the names of the pair sprung from the vivid imagination of their gifted creator, Jim Henson.
 

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28. Quite possible and can be learned:

Some people can sneeze with their eyes open and some people can?t. Sneezing is a reflex and so is closing our eyes. We have no control over whether or not we close our eyes when we sneeze. Some people don?t have reflex, so when they sneeze then their eyes won?t close. Some people try to close their eyes so when they sneeze their eyes won?t pop out. Your eyes don?t really pop out. People without the reflex to sneeze with their eyes open can try to train themselves to sneeze with their eyes open. One good way to do this is if when you sneeze you hold your eyes open.
 

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26.

I thought I heard somewhere that the same applies to George W. Bush.