Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. They also don't have united skulls--several different skull plates that fuse together.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Yeah, but they can't eat.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. Someone was working on publishing a dictionary of cat sounds, but I never heard anything more. I wanted to buy it, certainly. I just know 'me' was an affectionate sound, 'ow' was a piss off sound, and 'meow' was an 'I'm willing to be affectionate but don't push your luck' sound.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Not true. :P
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. Depends on how fast they walked.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. I have a horribly intense urge to domesticate something, then. Any suggestions? And actually, this would be false, but I'll have to look up the actual figures.
Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors. I always liked him.
No word in the English language rhymes with month. Or orange.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Nothing in our eyes will regenerate. It's kind of scary.
Shakespeare invented the word assassination' and 'bump'. Assassin comes from the Assassins, the extinct third branch of Islam. Only Sunni and Shi'ite still exist.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right. Bah. I don't do that crap.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. Not North and South America. :P
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. They're palindromes. So is 'Put Elliot's toliet up.'
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. *doesn't blink*
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. *doesn't blink* Wow. Both sides?
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility." That has 6 i's.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts. I'm sure some version of the Bible does, there are only 200+ floating around out there.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Yep. It's a centisecond.
It's impossible to lick your elbow. No it's not.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime. ...Fuck. Humans are horny.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. I believe it. x.x
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. How was this tested?
Yeah, I disbelieve a lot of this, but some I know to be true.
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Date: 2002-07-01 06:21 pm (UTC)They also don't have united skulls--several different skull plates that fuse together.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Yeah, but they can't eat.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
Someone was working on publishing a dictionary of cat sounds, but I never heard anything more. I wanted to buy it, certainly. I just know 'me' was an affectionate sound, 'ow' was a piss off sound, and 'meow' was an 'I'm willing to be affectionate but don't push your luck' sound.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Not true. :P
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Depends on how fast they walked.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
I have a horribly intense urge to domesticate something, then. Any suggestions? And actually, this would be false, but I'll have to look up the actual figures.
Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
I always liked him.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Or orange.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Nothing in our eyes will regenerate. It's kind of scary.
Shakespeare invented the word assassination' and 'bump'.
Assassin comes from the Assassins, the extinct third branch of Islam. Only Sunni and Shi'ite still exist.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
Bah. I don't do that crap.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
Not North and South America. :P
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
They're palindromes. So is 'Put Elliot's toliet up.'
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
*doesn't blink*
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
*doesn't blink* Wow. Both sides?
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
That has 6 i's.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
I'm sure some version of the Bible does, there are only 200+ floating around out there.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Yep. It's a centisecond.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
No it's not.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
...Fuck. Humans are horny.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
I believe it. x.x
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
How was this tested?
Yeah, I disbelieve a lot of this, but some I know to be true.