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Did you know... - 12/23/2008 3:14:32 AM

FourQ

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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.

'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 1/1000th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

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.

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.

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RE: Did you know... - 12/23/2008 6:18:32 AM

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Ahhhh but did you know that the juice inside a juvenile coconut can be used as Plasma in a blood transfusion?

But in the event that you are in need of that you would need to find a Needle in which to Administer it.

Did you know that a Sparrows Wing Bone (I don't remember the Specific one) if boiled can double as an IV needle

But if you have to Open a Coconut and catch then boil a Sparrow wing you will be dead before you can use them.

And that the average person only has 6 to 7 pints of blood period the rest is Plasma. And that 62 coconuts worth of plasma and one person giving you one pint of their blood every two weeks could completely replace your entire blood system but that you would probably die from infection.

Why I know this.... NO IDEA.

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RE: Did you know... - 12/23/2008 6:26:23 AM

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I knew about the coconut / plasma discovery, but didn't know about sparrows bones.
Interesting

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RE: Did you know... - 12/23/2008 8:22:08 AM

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Steel, I think you need to get out more

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RE: Did you know... - 12/23/2008 10:58:50 AM

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ORIGINAL: FourQ

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Thus explaining George Burns and George W Bush

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
Abstemiously and Facetiously actually complete the list with the letter Y in position. AEIOU and sometimes Y

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Sharks don't blink. They have upper and lower eyelids, but these lids don't move and don't close over the eye. When biting prey, some sharks protect their eyes with a third eyelid called the nictitating membrane.

There are more chickens than people in the world.
Worldwide, 55 billion chickens are produced every year. Spread wing to wing, the number of chickens killed every day would wrap more than twice around the world's equator. The average U.S. consumption of pork is 51 pounds per person annually, compared with 65 pounds per person of beef and 82 pounds per person of chicken, according to a recent study by the USDA’s Economic Research Service.

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