Monday, May 19, 2008

OMG DID YOU KNOW.......?

This
really is
interesting.......


Just
keep scrolling
down.

This
is very
interesting!

After
reading it, you'll go
'duh,

I
didn't know
that.'





'Stewardesses'


is
the longest word typed with only the left
hand



And
'lollipop'

is
the longest word typed with your right hand.

(Bet
you tried this out mentally, didn't
you?)


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)




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.!)





Almonds
are a member of the peach

family.




An
ostrich's eye
is bigger than its
brain.

(I
know some people like that also)





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.





Leonardo
Da Vinci invented
the
scissors






Peanuts

are
one of the ingredients of
dynamite!







Rubber
bands
last longer when
refrigerated.




he
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.

(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 more than you did before!!




The
Rain-Thomas Kinkade




This
is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to carry a
miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will
receive a miracle. I am passing this on because I
thought it was really pretty, and besides, who couldn't
use a miracle?!

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