Words . . . Very Interesting

'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. 

         (I know some people like that also) 

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!!   

  

  

The Rain - Thomas Kinkade 

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting.

Thomas Kinkade 

January 19, 1958 - April 6, 2012

54 years old

October 2008