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11-28-2006, 06:36 AM | #1 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Think you know everything?? SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? What About these things... "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, yo u 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). (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 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, 8 abreast, 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. 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. THERE!........Now you know everything! I love these kinds of emails... Dawn |
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11-28-2006, 06:50 AM | #2 |
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| "Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur." Now that, I did not know. |
11-28-2006, 09:54 AM | #3 |
Cosmo, Minnie, and Lillian Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New York
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| wow I didn't know half of those facts..thank you for sharing |
11-28-2006, 10:04 AM | #4 |
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| Very interesting, thanks!
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11-28-2006, 12:36 PM | #5 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Your very welcome...dont ya love things that make ya go hum.. Dawn |
11-28-2006, 12:59 PM | #6 |
Lil' Divas mom Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Miami, FL
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| Thanks for the post! I am going to impress my co-workers today with "my" new found knowledge!!
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11-28-2006, 01:37 PM | #7 |
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| Thanks -- I love these kinds of things. You know I just printed it out. Roger Miller always thought he had the word to rhyme with purple ...... maple syruple as in: They say roses are red, violets are purple, Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple LOL! I loved his songs, talk about showing my age! We had to type "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" about a million times in the one semester I took of typing class in high school.
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