Interesting Facts Worth Reading

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Just keep scrolling down.

After reading this, you'll go "duh, I didn't know that."

"Stewardesses"
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is the longest word typed with only the left hand

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

(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
(Are you doubting this?)
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Our eyes
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are always the same size from birth,
but our nose
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and ears

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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?

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

(Yep, 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
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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)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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A goldfish
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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.
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A shark
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is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.


A snail
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can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach
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family.

An ostrich's eye
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is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)

Babies
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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.

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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

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Peanuts
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are one of the ingredients of dynamite!


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Rubber bands
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last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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The cruise liner, QE 2
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moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


The microwave
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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.


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There are more chickens
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than people in the world.


Winston Churchill
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was born in a ladies' room during a dance.


Women blink
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nearly twice as much as men.


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