Wednesday, November 14, 2007

some random facts....

1. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
2. Lollipop is the longest word typed with your right hand
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
4. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
5. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
7. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
8. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
9. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
10. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
11. A snail can sleep for three years
12. Almonds are a member of the peach family
13. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
14. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years
15. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
16. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
17. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
18. The cruiseliner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
19. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
20. Women blink nearly twice as much as men