Monday, November 29, 2010

Do We Know Everything??

"Stewardesses"  is the longest word typed with only the  left hand ...                     
 
And  "lollipop"    is the longest word typed with your  right hand.   (Bet you  tried this out mentally, didn't  you?)  

    
No word in the  English language rhymes with month,orange, silver, or  purple!   


"Dreamt" is the  only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!


                                            
  

     
  Our  eyes    are always the same  size  from birth,  but our nose and ears  never stop  growing!

                                 


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

                                            
  
    
 There are only  four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,  horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous!



There are two words in the English language that  have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious"!   (Yes, admit  it, youare going to say, a e i o  u)
TYPEWRITER    is the longest word that can be made using  the letters only on one row of the keyboard.  (All  you typists are going to test this  out)

A cat has 32  muscles in each ear!
     


A  goldfish has  a memory span of three seconds!




A "jiffy" is an  actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!


A  shark is the  only fish that can blink with both  eyes!

A  snail    can sleep for three  years!  
Almonds are a  member of the peach    family!


An ostrich's  eye is bigger than its  brain!



Babies are born without kneecaps.  They don't  appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of  age!

February 1865 is  the only month in recorded history not to have a full  moon.   
 

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


If the  population of China  walked past you, abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of  reproduction!



Leonardo  Da   Vinci  invented   the scissors!



Peanuts     are one of the ingredients of  dynamite!


Rubber  bandslast longer when  refrigerated!



The average  person's left hand does 56% of the typing!



The cruise  liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel  that it burns!


The  microwave    was invented after a researcher  walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his  pocket!


The winter of  1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls   froze completely  solid!





There are more chickens than people in the  world!


 





Women  blink nearly twice as much as  men!




Now  you definitely know more than you  did before!!!
  

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