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A Few Interesting Facts Maybe You Did Not Know
Here are a few interesting facts maybe you did not know..
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. The price of the Titanic was $7 million and the price of the Titanic movie was 200 million "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, level, madam, radar, civic, stats, rotor, deed.. (and many others) 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. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure 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. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants! The average person eats 4 spiders every year in their sleep Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. During his entire life, an average male spends 3100 hours shaving 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. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. 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 drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow 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. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. There are more chickens than people in the world. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day!!!!! Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!! |
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