Tuesday, March 4, 2008

FAQs

"Stewardesses" []is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..


And "lollipop" []is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)



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". ? (Are you doubting this?)
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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. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?) []
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.
(You're not doubting this, are you?)



There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER
[]is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the ke yboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. []


A goldfish []has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)


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.
(I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach
[]family.



An ostrich's eye[] is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also)

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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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.
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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. (Good thing he did that.)


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!

2 comments:

  1. the longest palindrome was uttered by napoleon bonaparte when he was in exile in St. Helena, he said, "able was i ere, i saw elba"... elba is an isaland in tuscany, italy

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