{"id":361,"date":"2016-01-25T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=361"},"modified":"2016-01-29T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:15:03","slug":"a-list-of-20-irrelevant-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"A list of 20 irrelevant facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a list of 20 irrelevant facts that are sure to prompt both interesting discussions and prolonged silence.<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.<\/li>\n
  2. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1\/100th of a second.<\/li>\n
  3. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.<\/li>\n
  4. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.<\/li>\n
  5. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.<\/li>\n
  6. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.<\/li>\n
  7. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.<\/li>\n
  8. A snail can sleep for three years.<\/li>\n
  9. Almonds are a member of the peach family.<\/li>\n
  10. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.<\/li>\n
  11. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.<\/li>\n
  12. Butterflies taste with their feet.<\/li>\n
  13. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.<\/li>\n
  14. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.<\/li>\n
  15. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.<\/li>\n
  16. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.<\/li>\n
  17. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.<\/li>\n
  18. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.<\/li>\n
  19. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.<\/li>\n
  20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Here is a list of 20 irrelevant facts that are sure to prompt both interesting discussions and prolonged silence. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1\/100th of a second. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}