Some interesting facts:

January 15, 2008



- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..

- And '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 shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

- A snail can sleep for three years.

- 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.

- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

- 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.

- There are more chickens than people in the world.

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


p/s: So did you learn anything new today? :)



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