Usless but interesting facts

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Usless but interesting facts

Subject: FACTS,,,, Useless,,,, but facts just the same,,,, veryinterestingStewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the lefthandAnd "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your righthand. (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 noseand 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 trythis out for accuracy, right?)The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the samewhether 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 notdoubting this, are you?)There are two words in the English language that have all fivevowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."(Yes, admit it, you aregoing to say, a e i o u)TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using theletters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are goingto test this out)A cat has 32 muscles in each earA goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some daysthat'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 thatcould 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 thechild reaches 2 to 6 years of age.February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to havea full moon.In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissorsPeanuts 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 gallonof diesel that it burns.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by aradar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing hedid that.)The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls frozecompletely 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!!

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