So you think you know everything??

louixo

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
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
 

RichM

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
Well if my math is correct it takes the QE2 31,680,000 gallons to do a 3,000 mile trip. Thats just one ship,wonder how much oil is consumed each year for pleasure purposes. Probably more then is used for productivity purposes.
 

Tom Robertson

Veteran Expediter
Louixo...

I have seen these kinds of "did you know" lists before and most of the stuff listed is accurate, or cannot easily be disproved.

The statement about the fuel economy of the QE II seemed absolutely preposterous... I used Rich's math (which we know is correct), then multiplied the gallons used by today fuel cost in my area and came up with the figure of over $60 million dollars for the 3000 mile voyage... I did not bother to determine how many passengers the ship holds... but knew immediately that the ship would be in a losing proposition with that kind of fuel economy.
So I did a little research and found the following information...


Diesel Engines 21st Century
– Surface Transportation
Displaces steam engines
Deep water commercial cargo &
cruise ships
• QE II – built in mid 1950s
–Steam turbine propulsion:
21 ft/gal fuel
• Replaced with diesel propulsion
& ship’s service generators in
1987
–Diesel engine propulsion: 39
ft/gal fuel
–Reduced vibrations
Inland marine tugs, ferries,
fishing boats, pleasure boats


Thus making the 3000 mile journey for an extremely reasonable $771,666.00.

(and we complain about fuel economy?)


Another post jumped out at me so ... a little more surfing on the web turned up this info...


On March 29th 1848 an ice jam up-river caused the Niagara River to stop flowing for several hours. Although the falls did not actually freeze over, the flow of water was minimized to the point where people could walk out on the River bottom and collect artifacts. The cause of this ice jam was a combination of a severe winter and a north westerly wind. Only after a change in the direction of the wind to the east did the ice jam loosen.

http://www.habsboys.org.uk/departments/geography/2_Year/niagara_falls.htm

I couldn't find anything written about Niagara Falls freezing in 1932 !


Makes you wonder who initiates these list and how much of it is actually true.

At first the reader simply assumes that these little known "facts" are exactly that ... facts.

Makes me wonder if someone with a really strange sense of humor takes a list like this, and then adds something he thinks will pass.

Maybe like... "Crows fly at night, only when it's raining"

Perhaps another example of believing half of what you see and none of which you hear? Or is that versa vice?

btw... did you know that it takes 43 times longer to say the word "Jiffy", than the words actual definition? 1/100th of a second is the accurate defination...who measured that?

one last question... How does the tree that falls in the forest know if anyone is close enough to hear?
 

terryandrene

Veteran Expediter
Safety & Compliance
US Coast Guard
Did you know the QEII travels 6000 ft per nautical mile?

She would then consume an optimal 461,538 gallon of bunker fuel on a 3000 mile trip. The cost of marine diesel varies considerably, worldwide, and would likely cost the Cunard folks less than $1.00US per gal, given their economy of scale and subsidies they likely enjoy.

Next?
 

roadweazel

Expert Expediter
>>>>>>>>>>All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<



Not all off the states are listed on the top of the lincoln memorial only abut 13.





roadweazel
 
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