Re: So how much do you really know?

Carl P. Corliss wrote:

>
> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
>
Interesting.  I once trained a goldfish to rise to the top of a fishbowl 
when a light was turned on, using operant conditioning (just like Pavlov 
and his famous drooling dog) in the span of a month.

>
> All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the 
> back of the $5 bill.
>
Yup, I knew that one, but can you find the John Wilkes Booth hiding in 
the bushes?  (j/k :)

> Almonds are a member of the peach family.


How odd. So are almonds fruit?

>
> Butterflies taste with their feet.
>
Yeah, and crickets hear with their legs.

>
> In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
>

Not true, my wife domesticated me COMPLETELY this year ;)

>
> The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube 
> and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
>
Yeah, I remember this factoid.  Someone from Raytheon...

> The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every 
> letter of the alphabet.


Called a pangram?

>
> 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).
>
'A man, a plan, a canal, Pamana!' was the first palindrome I learned.

>
> Now you know (almost) everything... :-)

I'll take your word for it, but my Lottery Number Predict-o-Tron still 
doesn't work :(

Dave