Random facts
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
And lollipop is the longest word typed with only the 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 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 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 ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes
A snail can sleep for three years
Almonds are a member of the peach family
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
Babies are born without kneecaps, which don’t appear until 2 to 6 years old.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4000 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 DaVinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
The average person’s hand does 56% of the typing
The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only 6 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.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as men as men
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. (watch your assJ)
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching tv
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are 50 years of age or older
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
American airlines once saved $40000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first ‘Marlboro Man.’
Walt Disney was afraid of mice
Pearls melt in vinegar
The three most valuable brand names on Earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but, not downstairs
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word ‘criminal.’ The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
