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".
(Are you doubting this?)

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.   (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 (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this O NE.)

There are only  four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,  horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not  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 cat has 32  muscles in each ear.

A  goldfish    has  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  eye is bigger than its  brain.

Babies are born without knee caps.  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  .

Peanuts  are one of the ingredients of  dynamite!

Rubber  bands last 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.    (Good thing  he did that.)

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

There are more chickens than people in the  world.

Winston  Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a  dance.

Women  blink nearly twice as much as  men.
(is that why  they talk so much?) 


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