'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand, and 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
There is not a word in the English language that rhymes
with “month”, “orange”, “silver”, or “purple”.
· This is inconvenient for songwriters and poets, Roger Millar in his song “Dang Me”, had to improvise by singing, “Roses are red, Violets are Purple, sugar is sweet, and so is Maple Surple.
The only English word ending in “MT” is “Dreamt”.
Our eyes never grow in size from our day of birth till old age, they remain the same size, but on the other hand our nose and ears never stop growing.
· Unless you visit a Plastic Surgeon.
The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the Alphabet.
· Who ever discovered that?
The words, “racecar”, “kayak”, and “level” are palindromes: they can be read from left to right, or right to left.
· So is Bob.
There are only four words in the English language that end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious”, (
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abstemious) and facetious.” (
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facetious)
· A reminder vowels run, a, e, i, o, u.
The word “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be formed using letters only on one row of the keyboard.
· I did not actually check this fact.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
· Some days that’s about the span of my memory.
Did you know that when you say: “I’ll be back in a ‘Jiffy’ that it is an actual unit of time?
· A ‘jiffy’ is the unit 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’ve worked with people who have nearly achieved this.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
· So why are they so hard?
An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
· No comment.
Babies have no kneecaps at birth, they do not appear until the child reaches from 2 to 6 years of age.
· I’m sure going to check this one out.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded History not to have a full moon.
· It was not a good night for a Duel!
What is a “Blue Moon”?
According to modern folklore, a Blue Moon is the second full moon in a calendar month.
· Its not coloured Blue.
No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
· This could cause some arguments.
It is estimated that if the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
· Is this why the coffee beaks were cancelled on Maple Leaf’s late shift?
Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the Scissors?
· Was he also the first person to cut his finger too?
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of ‘Dynamite.”
· That piece of information may give you a bang.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
· What a no-brainer this fact is?
The average persons left hand does 56% of the typing.
· But in my case, my right middle finger does all of the typing.
The Cruise Liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of Diesel Fuel that it burns.
· Makes you wonder about banning drive through Restaurants doesn’t it?
The Microwave Oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube, and a Chocolate Bar in his pocket melted.
· He has no children, and not one hair grows on his body.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
· What about in China?
Sir Winston Churchill was born in a “Ladies Room” during a dance.
· I don’t think so:
http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp
Women “Blink” nearly twice as much as men.
· Someone suggested 15,000 times a day, but I cannot find out why?
Now you know more than you did before!!