SOME INTERESTING THIINGS

·         “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.

·         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 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, 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