Did You Know?

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Did You Know?

• A little trivia information

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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.  (Bet you tried this out
  mentally, didn't you?)

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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".  (Are you doubting this?)

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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 "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?)

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• 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.)

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• 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)

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• There are only four words in the English language
  which end in "dous" tremendous, horrendous,
  stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting
  this, are you?)

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• 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)

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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. (Some days that's about what my memory
  span is.)

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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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• 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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• (I know some people like that also)

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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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• A snail    can sleep for three years.
• (I know some people that could do this too.!)

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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!

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• 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.   (Good thing he did that.)

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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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• Now you know more than you did before!!

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