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What is something I don't know?

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  • Beyora
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    -Depending on how observant you are, you might not know that in books, the even-numbered pages are always on the left side.

    -"Alright" is not a word.

    -"Beroya" means "bounty hunter" in the Star Wars language Mando'a.

    -Coins such as quarters and dimes have ridges on them because people used to cut the edges off them and melt them down and sell the metal to make more money, but now that they have ridges, it would be noticeable if someone did that.

    -The term "sleep tight" comes from how mattresses used to be made. Before the advent of modern mattresses, ropes were spread across the bed frame in a criss-cross pattern to form a sleeping platform. The ropes would sag with time and weight and had to be tightened periodically.

    -"Cappuccino" was named after an order of monks. The Capuchin monastic order.

  • The human nervous system is powered by the electrochemical reaction of sodium & potassium, a polarity of battery elements if you will, I think the speed is slower than electricity probably due to the fact that organic nerves are not the best electrical conductors, but I think I read somewhere that the speed of transmission from nerve A in brain---> to nerve receptor anywhere in the body is about 275 feet per second.

    So if you had arms 273.5 feet long, it would take a second before you could tell your hand to stop waving at the people sitting at the top of a 276 foot high building, (through a window of course!)

    Source(s): human deduction, memory.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    a dime has 118 ridges

    goldfish have a memory span of three seconds

    the country Brazil was named after the nut, not the other way around

    Jean Claude Van Dam is the Predator

    male sea horses carry the babies

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Woman have better aim than men when it comes to archery.

    I failed my math final today.

    I bought my mom's Christmas present today.

    BEAT THAT!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Something you were never taught

  • 1 decade ago

    Anything.

  • 1 decade ago

    an answer to your question.

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