Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Did you know?




You will be so much smarter when you finish reading this
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Just keep scrolling down
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'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand
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And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
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"Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.?
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The sentence:
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
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The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
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There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrend ous, stupendous, and hazardous
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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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A snail can sleep for three years
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Almonds are a member of the peach family
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
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The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
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There are more chickens than people in the world
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men 

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