Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Didn't know most of this, did you?

Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand 
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And "lollipop" 
is the longest word typed with your right hand. 

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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, 
but our nose and ears never stop growing. 
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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" 
uses every letter of the alphabet. 

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The words 'racecar,'   
'kayak', and 'level' 
are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). 
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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." 

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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 

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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
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A snail can sleep for three years. 

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Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
(I know some people like that also) 
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 
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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 
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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
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The cruise liner, QE 2
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 
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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.) 
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. 
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There are more chickens than people in the world. 
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Winston Churchill 
was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
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Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!
 
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Now you know (a little) more than you did before!! 
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The Rain-Thomas Kinkade 



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This is a Thomas Kinkade painting. It's rumored to carry a miracle! They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle. I am passing this on because I thought it was really pretty, and besides, who couldn't use a miracle?!

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