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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Real Amazing Facts 25

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
 

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
 

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
 

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
 

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 

"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
 

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
 

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
 

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.  The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth.  Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.