This
is interesting! Learn something new
everyday....
'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'.
(Are you
doubting this?)
our
eyesare
always the same size from
birth,
but our noseand
ears
never
stop growing.
The
sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog'
uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're
going to try this out for accuracy,
right?)
The
words 'racecar,' 'kayak'and
'level'are
the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left (palindro
mes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this
one.)
There
are only four words in the English language
which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not possibly
doubting this, are you ?)
There
are two words in the English language that have
all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and
'facetious.'
(Yes,
admit it, you are 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
cathas 32 muscles in each
ear.
A
goldfishhas
a memory span of three
seconds .
(Some days that's about
what my memory span
is.)
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.
(I know
some people that could do this
too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An
ostrich's eyeis bigger than its brain.
(I know some people
like that also . Actually I know A LOT
of people like
this!)
Babiesare 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, 8 abreast,
the line would never
end because of the rate of
reproduction.
Leonardo
Da Vinci
invented the
scissors
Peanutsare
one of the ingredients of
dynamite!
Rubber
bandslast longer when
refrigerated.
The
average person's left handdoes 56% of the
typing.
The
cruise liner, QE 2,
moves
only six
inches for each gallon of
diesel that it
burns.
The
microwavewas
invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did
that.)
The
winter of 1932 was so
cold that
Niagara
Falls
froze
completely solid .
There
are more
chickensthan
people in the world.
Winston
Churchill
was
born in a ladies' room during a
dance.
Women
blinknearly twice as much as men.
Now
you know more than you did
before!!
The
Rain-Thomas Kinkade
This
is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to
carry a miracle!
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