Australian Competitions Club

>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.)
> >
> >Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
> >
> >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!