Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Few Awesome and Funny Facts

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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.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • 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.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
  • ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
  • A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  • A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
  • In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
  • Rubber band last longer when refrigerated.
  • Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
  • Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  • 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.
  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.


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