Did you know.......
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
Lollipop is the longest word typed with only the right hand
No English language word rhymes with month, orange, silver purple
Dreamt is the only English word that ends with mt
Our eyes are the same size from birth
But our ears and nose never stop growing
The sentence the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses all the letters in the alphabet.
There are only 4 words that end in dous, tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous
There are only two words that have all five vowels in order -- abstemious and facetious
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made from letters from one row of the keyboard
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
A gold fish has a memory span of three seconds
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time of 1/100th of a second
A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes
A snail can sleep for three years
Almonds are a member of the peach family
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. I know some people like that too.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until 2 - 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month with no recorded full moon
In 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated
If the population of China walked past you 8 abreast it would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Leonardo de Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts is one of the ingredients in dynamite
Rubber bands will last longer if kept in the refrigerator
Your left hand does 56% of the typing
The cruise liner the QE2 moves only 6 inches with each gallon of fuel burnt
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely
There are more chickens than people in the world
Winston Churchill was born in the ladies room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
All the ants in Africa weight more than all the elephants. That's a lot of ants.
Now you know.
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