Topic: >SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
scttrbrain's photo
Mon 06/11/07 10:14 AM

"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
orde r: "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!

Kat

SheNerd's photo
Mon 06/11/07 10:18 AM
Love em! :)

Now where's that toilet plunger...

creationsfire's photo
Mon 06/11/07 10:25 AM
how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood.........those were great........cute stuff. Kudos for the
interesting readflowerforyou

Staynalone's photo
Mon 06/11/07 10:49 AM
Love to learn those are GREAT.
Thank youflowerforyou flowerforyou flowerforyou

BonnyMiss's photo
Mon 06/11/07 10:59 AM
so is dad, mum, nan.

Claudette's photo
Mon 06/11/07 11:02 AM
wow interesting things to know thanks for sharing
BonnyMiss how are you?flowerforyou