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For Those Who Think They Know Everything

mulester7

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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.

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.

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.

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.

There, now you know everything!
 
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Curdle, hurdle and turtle I would say rhyme with purple just as sliver and slither rhyme with silver. There may be others. Sometimes the lists are wrong.

"The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns." I have my doubts. How far does it take for the inertia
of the ship to arrest the motion if all engine power is cut off?
 
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Curdle, hurdle and turtle I would say rhyme with purple just as sliver and slither rhyme with silver. There may be others. Sometimes the lists are wrong.

I would say curdle, hurdle and turtle would rhyme with purdle (if that was a word), not purple. Last sound is "PUL", not "DUL", at least the way they are pronounced around here.
As to sliver rhyming with silver, well, do giver and liver rhyme with silver, too? :no:
 
See here: http://literarydevices.net/rhyme/

To rhyme, it is NOT necessary to have an IDENTICAL sound.

I think in this case it should have identical sound.

Point taken. Most would interpret the list as meaning perfect rhyme, though.

This is what I think, not rhyming in the sense of 'Prose' - but rhyming in the sense of 'Homophones'.

http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest/misc/homophones-list.html

But if I am ever on Family Feud and the category is "word that rhymes with pitter" I am going to say patter.

Bet my family won't say, "Good answer".:D
 
I just knew this list would promote controversy ...

And no, it's NOT impossible to sneeze with your eyes open ... just difficult!

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"But if I am ever on Family Feud and the category is "word that rhymes with pitter" I am going to say patter. "

A quick check of my Webster"s Collegiate Dictionary shows a distinction between "pitter" and "patter."

Patter can be found apart from pitter. Yet pitter is hyphenated with patter and not found alone.

My guess is that you'll get the points.
 
Da Vinci didn't invent scissors, they're far, far older devices than that.

The states of Hawail and Alaska are not commemorated on the friezes atop the Lincoln Memorial but on a bronze plaque on the steps. If on the five dollar bill they're shown as being on the friezes the bill itself is in error. I don't have a fin around, just double sawbucks.
 
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A quick check of my Webster"s Collegiate Dictionary shows a distinction between "pitter" and "patter."

Patter can be found apart from pitter. Yet pitter is hyphenated with patter and not found alone.

My guess is that you'll get the points.

My reference to "pitter" and "patter" comes from the link you provided in post #7. They are cited as examples of general rhymes.
Oddly, so are "silver" and "cleaver". :scratch2:

Da Vinci didn't invent scissors, they're far, far older devices than that.

The states of Hawail and Alaska are not commemorated on the friezes atop the Lincoln Memorial but on a bronze plaque on the steps. If on the five dollar bill they're shown as being on the friezes the bill itself is in error. I don't have a fin around, just double sawbucks.

I was hoping Tom would chime in on this thread, so I avoided any use of an ellipsis.
 
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"A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours."
Nope, that's a Mayfly.


"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill."
Not on my fiver (only 26) - should I ask for an exchange?

"You can't believe everything on the internet" - G. Washington
 
Nope, hold on there M7! :D

Didn't even think about this one:

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

Rome
 
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