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Learn something new every day
« on: February 24, 2008, 01:18:46 PM »
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                    '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'.  
                     
                     
                     
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                    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).   (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.
                   
                     
                    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.
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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! []
                     
                    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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