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Courtesy of P.F.

  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  • 'Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
  • 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'.
  • 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.
  • The words 'racecar', 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
  • There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)
  • There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
  • 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.
  • 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 India 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, QE 2, 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.
  • 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 more than you did before!!

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