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'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 32 muscles in each
ear.
A
goldfish  has
a memory span of three seconds.
(Some
days that's about what my memory span
is.)
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.
(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.
(I
know some people like that also)
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.
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. 
The
cruise liner, QE 2
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.
Winston
Churchill
was
born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women
blink
nearly
twice as much as men.
Now
you know more than you did before!!
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