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Gundurao Kulkarni ®
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
"Stewardesses" is the
longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your
right.
(Bet
you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
It's
impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
(I'll
bet you're going to check this out.)
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).
(Y
ep, 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 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)
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
A
dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A
cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A
crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
(but
who really cares?)
A
dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
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.)
Al
Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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.
Butterflies
taste with their feet.
Cats
have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about
10.
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, in single
file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
If
you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6
months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo
Da Vinci invented the scissors.
On a
Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an
American flag.
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. (Good thing he
did that)
The
winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara
Falls froze completely solid.
There
are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There
are more chickens than people in the world.
There's
no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables
Vitamins.
Tigers
have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Winston
Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
Women
blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your
stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will
digest itself.
..................Now
you know everything!