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« : Saturday 28 June 2008, 11:47:47 pm » |
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>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!
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