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Did you know? - 9/3/2010 2:01:32 AM

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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.

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 dog jumps over the lazy fox" uses every letter of the alphabet.

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 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.

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.

Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!

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RE: Did you know? - 9/3/2010 8:27:14 AM

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Didn't know none of the lucy. But doesn't slurple rhyme with purple?

And, the falls couldn't have been or else everything downstream would have flooded..Or am I crazy

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RE: Did you know? - 9/3/2010 8:40:29 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

According to Q.I. orange and purple both have rhymes.

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RE: Did you know? - 9/3/2010 1:43:04 PM

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".... "Dreamt" is not a word. That is the way "dreamed" is pronounced in several colloquial versions of English but it is spelled with an ED.

"Almonds are a member of the peach family."... And peach pits are also known as "bitter almonds" and are a natural source of cyanide.

"Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age."... Kneecaps (patella) is all cartilidge at birth and hardens to solid bone over time. Just like the soft spot at the top of the baby's head.

"Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.... Then why do you need larger diameter contact lenses as you grow older from teen years?

"There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous." A spacious specious comment that doesn't seem to hold true.

"In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated."... American Bison

"Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!" ... "dynamite" is nitroglycerine mixed with a cellulose material to act as a stabilizer. Sawdust, peanut hulls, and even shredded paper will work just as well.

"Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated." ... Rubber bands, and other items of natural rubber, last longer when kept away from ozone and hydrocarbons that deteriorate them. A refridgerator that seals them off from outside air would make them last longer even if turned off. In fact, the classic method for measuring the "pollution index" is to suspend a weight from a rubber band and measure the elongation over time as the air pollutants deteriorate the rubber. (Flashback to 1968 Science Fair project)

"Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors" ... Created left handed scissors so he could cut comfortably... he was a lefty and even kept his personal notes writing backwards from right to left.

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.." then went to talk to actual radar operators to see if they had noticed similar problems around klystron tubes and found one of them dangling a hot dog on a fissing line in front of the radar dish to cook it. He went on to file the basic patent on using a klystron radar tube as a cooking applicance... the Amana Radar Range was born. BTW, he didn't walk by but was doing low power testing on new design of radar transmitter and it melted the chocolate bar in his pocket.

"There are more chickens than people in the world." ... the standard commercial chicken house will contain around 25,000 birds. Yes there is a breed called a "Cornish Hen" but the difference in the cornish hen you find in the grocery store and the broiler hen is simple: two weeks.

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RE: Did you know? - 9/3/2010 6:02:25 PM

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MerchTech, Thank you for your pedantic additions

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Dreamt most certainly is a word, its is a past tense/past participle of dream, as in "I dreamt of Jason Statham last night".not much used in the US it seems but definitely in the dictionaries and in english verbiage.
Dous is not in specious or spacious, sorry
The eyes actually do grow about six millimeters between birth and two years, apart from that it is internal pressure and or deterioration of the lens/cornea that causes the shape to change, NOT the size of the eye
Anjelika nice catch with QI I really like that program, specially with all that gaelic :)
DomyngBlk, yes it did freeze over...and there are pics out there to show it
http://www.hotbuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/frozen-falls.jpg\
Also slurple and nurple however much fun they are, are not in any recognizable english dictionary, however it may make it...if refudiate does (snicker)

I admit I didnt check all the facts as I got them from an email about 3am this morning ..... I thought people might have fun with them

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