A quilt for the little people in Dorothy's family.
So cute
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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. 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. 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 Chewable 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
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