A long time ago I read this and kept it. I think it was sent to me in an email. I find it interesting and just thought I would post it here. I don't know how accurate these things are or where the info came from but it's still pretty cool.
“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and lollipop with your right.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and 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” - stupendous,
and hazardous, tremendous and horrendous.
There are two words in the English language that have 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.
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 goldfish has a memory span of 3 sec.
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone’s business card said was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are the member of the peach family.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s 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 in a line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you 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.
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.
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