Friday, August 3, 2012

I Think I'm Starting to Look Like a Goldfish...


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"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!!
 

1 comment:

Giupetto and Gianna Tails said...

This was great. So interesting.
I had to check the every alphabet one. Yep -they're all there. :-)