SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
"Stewardesses" is the longest word
typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your
right. (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 one.)
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 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
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, QE2, 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
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.
Now you know everything!