This is interesting! 
Learn something new every day.... 
 
 
     
'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 possibly 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.)   
(Actually I know A LOT of people like this!) 
 
 


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 
that is  rumored to carry a Miracle.....