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Old 05-21-2007, 11:50 AM   #1  
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Cool So You Think You Know Everything?

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.




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 never 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." (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.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years. (Hey, I wanna be a snail).






Almonds are a member of the peach family.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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, QE2, 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.


There are more chickens than people in the world.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything!
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Old 05-23-2007, 03:05 PM   #2  
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You learn something every day!
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Old 05-24-2007, 08:55 PM   #3  
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That is some cool trivia.
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Old 05-25-2007, 08:00 PM   #4  
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Cool. Not true about February 1865 being the only month without a full moon though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon
Says there, February 1866 (not '65), 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961 and 1999 were all without full moons. And in 1999 there were *two* full moons in both January and March.
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