Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sam the Work Cat ~


One day last week Sam thought the perfect place to chill was the top of my filing cabinet.


Do you know where "Oz" from the Wizard of Oz came from?
The classic tale of Dorothy in the land of Oz came from the imagination of L. Frank Baum, who made up the story for his son and a group of children one evening in 1899.
When a little girl asked him the name of the magical land with the Scarecrow, Tinman and the Cowardly Lion, he looked around the room for inspiration.
He happened to be sitting next to a filing cabinet with the drawers labeled "A-G", "H-N" and finally "O-Z", which gave him the quick answer, "Oz".



Can you believe this weekend is Memorial Day weekend?  Time sure is a flyin'!
Pug hugs :)
Lauren

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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!!