Saturday, March 24, 2007

You think you know everything?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you? quit looking at your keyboard)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (hmm lets see... ok i cant think of any for month... orange and arange? kenot ah??? ... silver and quiver?? ahhh forget it)

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (blinks)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (emm actually everything else grows ... ehem!)

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (heh cool)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (yeah okkkkkk)

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." (Go ahead 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.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. (so?)

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is like especially on Mondays)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. (say what?)

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. (are u sure?)

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. (everyone knows this)

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. (and men too! heheh ops!)

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. (either the people in china havent heard of birth control or they just like to cum inside)

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. (clever fellow)

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, QE2, 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. (thats why we must eat more chickens... they are taking over the world!!!)

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (well hehehe we only blink twice as much coz we are trying to catch some water fish... or mascara got into our eyes!!)

Now you know everything! (well not really)

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