I am sure I have posted this one before, but I thought it's interesting to take a second look ... as I have forgotten half of it!
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ' lollipop' with your right.
- A ' jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- 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 you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
- 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. They read the same whether you read them left to right or right to left.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
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