35 Jokes

[cadetat6]

1. Rubber bands 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 is 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.
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[Wyoming]

Hey cadetat6, good post, interesting thingys.

Question - did you do a snopes.com on all of this stuff or is it a copy and paste from somewhere in places unknown?

Lots of stuff becomes believable, after only a short time in cyber space, and some of it can come back to bite you in the arse.

[Ed Palmer]

...reverse of the five-dollar bill depicts the Lincoln Memorial. You may be aware that, engraved on that Memorial are the names of the 48 states...


from ask Jeeves

[BC22]

Canada doesn't have a two-dollar bill, they have a coin called a toonie, it has a polar bear on it

[cadetat6]

It was copy and paste about a year ago

[Jcdittus]

Bc22 Canada had a 2 dollar bill, the coin replaced it, it is called a loonie, or loon, after the duck which is on it

[yellowwing]

When our Canadian currency dropped, the $1 bill was replaced by a coin with a loon on the reverse of Her Majesty. Hence Loonie.

Then came the replacement of the $2 bill, with a polar bear on the reverse. It was rushed to production so fast, that the first set had the problem of the middle popping out!

Two dollars, following our Canuck logic, became twoonie. The only real advantage is that you can get a hair cut and a decent lunch on pocket change.

[yellowwing]

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Holy Moly! This one looks authentic. The flag sure does not look like the Red Maple Leaf on White with 2 Red Bars!

[Ed Palmer]

I cant see it the top one is 1954 issue and the other is 1974
niether one shows a flag.
I got these off of E Bay take another look I could be wrong but I doubt it
I just might become a myth buster

[yellowwing]

It's a 1986 $2 note image zoomed in from this Bank of Canada web page.

[Ed Palmer]

I dont know how I missed this one but I did
you are right but those are not the stripes of the Stars and Stripes