Some Good Trivia

26 06 2008

“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left

hand .And “lollipop”   is the longest word typed with your right hand


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”.   

Our eyes  are always  the same size
  from birth, but  our nose

and ears  ever stop  growing.                      

 

The  sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of  the alphabet.

 

The words ‘racecar,’  ‘kayak’    and  ’level’   are the same  whether they are read left to right or right to left  (palindromes).


There are only four words in the  English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,  and hazardous.

There are two words in the English  language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

  
TYPEWRITER  is the  longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the  keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each  ear.

A goldfish  has a  memory span of three seconds. 

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.

 An ostrich’s  eye is bigger than  its brain.

 February 1865 is the only month in  recorded history not to have a full moon.  

 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.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that  Niagara  Falls  froze completely solid.


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