More Stuff to fill your noggin. Happy Monday!

  

For all you people like me who love random interesting facts...

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.  Malcolm Forbes

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  possibly 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 .  Actually I know  A  LOT of people like this!)

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.

(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.

If you doubt this, watch Katie Couric conducting an interview.

Now you know more than you did before!!