January 25, 2008

Random Facts

Taken from the intarwebs

- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..
- And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
- 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'.
- 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.
- The words 'racecar, 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
- There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious'.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years. (Dang i wanna be a snail)
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- 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.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.(To attract the men lahhhhhhh)

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