Friday, February 02, 2007

So you think you know everything...?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

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.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 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.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.

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.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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 microwave 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.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

NOW you know everything

You're welcome. :)

4 Comments:

Blogger Katie said...

Oh I have this and about a million other all compiled in my "list of useless information to impress people or just prove how weird I am". And I just admitted that I actually have this list to you, so yep, I'm pretty weird.

12:53 PM  
Blogger Tom said...

Ok smarty....try this one... How many states of 4 letters? Did you say Three? WRONG!

Iowa, Ohio, and Utah. Not quite.

I said four letters, I didn't say they could be reused or not!

Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Alaska
Hawaii
Kansas

Hows that lil fact!

1:43 PM  
Blogger Laura said...

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama" is also a palindrome -- one of the longest that actually makes sense; and it refers to Roosevelt's championing of the Canal's construction in the early part of the 20th century!

NOW you know everything.

4:40 PM  
Blogger Bobby said...

A goldfish isn't the only thing that has a memory span of only three seconds, little buddy.

7:33 AM  

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