[mrb020377]

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet you're
going to check this out.)

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.)

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.
(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.)

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

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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 cruise liner, QE2, 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 everything

Hm, I have doubts re the goldfish. I thought there had been research showing it was a myth.

[AlteredState01]

Cool facts! I love reading stuff like that.

I was absolutely horrified when I read the one about the Canadian 2 dollar bill.

Get this! We have replaced it with a coin, affectionately(?) called a "Toonie." Our 1 dollar coin is called a "Loonie." When you put the two in numerical order, we now use what appears to be "cartoon" currency!!

Gee, do you think we are getting any smarter at this?

Great reading!

Altered State

[JustAPixie]

Great stuff!!!!!!!

[(JD)]

hehehe typists KNEW many of those... including bookkeeper (only word with 3 doubled letters in a row)... kewl stuff.

I find it difficult to accept the no words rhyme with line... so I assume it means with the same number of syllables? But I did find one recently (this year) for orange... now where did I put that???? lol

A dog's ear has 48 muscles! (well it might be 42, pain gives me memory trouble) I think I learned this when my vet showed me all the different directions and ways my puppy was listening!

[Speeddemon]

The letter "W" is missing from the lazy dog sentence, so it doesn't use every letter of the alphabet.

[Speeddemon]

That one about Canadian $2 bills seems to be untrue. One of my cousins who is Canadian just checked on this for me and I found out two things: 1) There is no $2 bill in Canada, only loonies and twonies(not sure I spelled that right) and 2)the flag over the Parliament building is in fact the Canadian flag.

[SeptemberMorn]

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A snail can sleep for three years.
(I know some people that could do this, too.)

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Yup! I do, too!

does losenge rhyme with orange?

not sure...

there is a 'w' in 'brown'

the w is in the word - brown. I missed it too. LOL

[nothemama8]

only counted 26 states on five dollar bill

[SeptemberMorn]

does losenge rhyme with orange?

Not for me... Maybe it depends on what part of the country you're from.

[Speeddemon]

Oops, your right.