Guest lvdkeyes Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. 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'. 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' and 'level' 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. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 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 . Actually I know A LOT of people like this!) 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. 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. 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fountainhall Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Wow! I had no idea you were so super-intelligent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lvdkeyes Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Wow! I had no idea you were so super-intelligent LOL, Just useless bits of information that were sent to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest laurence Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Now you know more than you did before!! My rough calculations would suggest the QE2 would need 25 millions gallons of fuel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It's capacity is about one million gallons. Cunard estimates it gets 50 feet/gallon of fuel. Don't believe me? Check http://www.snopes.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lvdkeyes Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 My rough calculations would suggest the QE2 would need 25 millions gallons of fuel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It's capacity is about one million gallons. Cunard estimates it gets 50 feet/gallon of fuel. Don't believe me? Check http://www.snopes.com Now we know even more than we did before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogie Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. I'm sure he was more than capable of doing so, but it beggars belief he was the first. If somebody had asked me, before I read this, I would have guessed as soon as the Iron Age cut in. . . (sorry, not that funny) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lvdkeyes Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Another piece of information that was passed on to me that is incorrect. It seems scissors were really invented long before Da Vinci was around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest laurence Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Yes, scissors existed about 3000 to 4000 years ago in the Bronze Age. I wonder just how accurate any of the information was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lvdkeyes Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Yes, scissors existed about 3000 to 4000 years ago in the Bronze Age. I wonder just how accurate any of the information was? You can check out each item if you want to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
