So You Think You Know Everything?
*"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 thirty-two 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.
*Raising taxes slows the economy.
*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 two to six years of age.
*February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
*If you subsidize something, you get more of it.
*In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
*If the population of China walked past you, eight 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.
*You cannot ration prosperity.
*The cruise liner QE II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
*The microwave oven 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.
*If you want peace, prepare for war.
*Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
*The "Surge" in Iraq is working.
Now you know more than you did before.
If you're a Democrat, you've still learned nothing, because your mind was already made up.
[h/t: Uncle]
*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 thirty-two 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.
*Raising taxes slows the economy.
*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 two to six years of age.
*February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
*If you subsidize something, you get more of it.
*In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
*If the population of China walked past you, eight 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.
*You cannot ration prosperity.
*The cruise liner QE II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
*The microwave oven 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.
*If you want peace, prepare for war.
*Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
*The "Surge" in Iraq is working.
Now you know more than you did before.
If you're a Democrat, you've still learned nothing, because your mind was already made up.
[h/t: Uncle]
posted by JASmius at 7:39 AM
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