Useless Information ~

"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?)

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 keyboard.

(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.

If the population of China walked past you,

8 abreast,

 the line would never end

 because of the rate of reproduction.

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.

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.

Bonus!!

All the ants in Africa

weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!