SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
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"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
'race car,' '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 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, 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 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.
> >Now you know everything!
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