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corolla girl
09-16-2007, 04:57 PM
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 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.





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.





Now you know more than you did before!

hoops
09-16-2007, 08:04 PM
the typing stuff...if i could type i'd test it ...lol :D cool stuff
peace
hoops

Gandalf
09-16-2007, 08:33 PM
> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
I know some people like this!

aabram
09-17-2007, 11:02 AM
the typing stuff...if i could type i'd test it ...lol :D cool stuff
peace
hoops

Noel, you CAN type!!!! You typed that last post didn't you???? Practise ...... lollipop, lollipop, lollipop :p

Annabel

DaveM
09-17-2007, 11:34 AM
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" also uses every word in the alphabet. And it's shorter. Also a lot of fun for two-finger typists.

hoops
09-17-2007, 02:04 PM
annabel,
oh yeahhhhhhh, i forgot
peace
hoops

DaveM
09-18-2007, 12:02 AM
It'd be fun to find out how to make dynamite out of peanuts. Just out of curiosity, of course.

Darlene
09-18-2007, 12:53 AM
You know I'm really kinda interested in finding out how to make dynamite out of peanuts too, Dave. You know just curious about it.
Peace, Darlene

aabram
09-18-2007, 08:43 AM
These could be worth something :D
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1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.

7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.

8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

DaveM
09-18-2007, 12:37 PM
Live every day as if it was your last, and sooner or later, you'll be right.