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Interesting Facts or Random Trivia?

Posted on 11. May, 2009 by Mark in Games Room, General

Below are a few fun facts to use or lose…

1. Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2. And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
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’.
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.
7. The words ‘racecar’, ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (called palindromes).
8. There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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.
11. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
12. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
14. A snail can sleep for three years.
15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
16. Babies  are born without kneecaps – They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
17. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
18. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
22. Rubber bands  last longer when refrigerated.
23. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
24. The cruise liner, QE2,  moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
25. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
27. There are more chickens than people in the world.
28. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
29. Women blink  nearly twice as much as men.

Now perhaps you know slighty more than you did before!

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