Language, people and animals are often the subject of fascination. Below you will find interesting facts about these and other subjects.
Language
1. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand
2. And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)
3. No word in the English language rhymes with Month, orange, silver, or purple.
4. ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters MT.
(Are you doubting this?)
5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, But our nose and ears Never stop growing.
6. 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?
7. The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ And ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
So is my dog. FredDerf
8. 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?)
9. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’
10. 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)
Animals
11. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
12. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that’s about what my memory span is.)
13. A snail can sleep for three years.
(I know some people that could do this too.!)
14. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
15. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
16. There are more chickens than people in the world.
17. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Humans
18. Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
19. If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
20. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
21. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
22. Winston Churchill Was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
23. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Strange but…
24. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated .
25. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
26. The cruise liner, QE 2 Moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
27. 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.)
28. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls Froze completely solid.
29. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
30. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
31. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
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