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?)

**No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (Few know enough words to agree or not)

**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. (When we get to old age, we will all look like Pinocchio then!)

**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). (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 too, 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)

**A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

**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. (Not even possible to actually measure)

**A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. (won't argue with experts)

**A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could almost do this)

**Almonds are a member of the peach family. (I knew that!)

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

**Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. (This I certainly didn't know)

**February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. (Amazing)

**In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. (I almost had a lizard becoming my house pet)

**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. (I thought it was the Chinese)

**Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! (No wonder I sometimes feel like exploding!)

**Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. (I guarantee that's true)

**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. (I would have thought that is determined by the arrangement of the keyboard and the majority of the words in usage)

**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. (No wodner it costs so much for a cruise, I thought it was the sumptuous food!)

**ONE winter was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. (Would have loved to see that)

**There are more chickens than people in the world. (Hope they don't start eating people!)

**Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. (Bet he never ceased to be reminded of that)

**Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (Wonder why)

**If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. (Even with one child per family?)

**The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing. I can't do without a micro.)

*** Now you know everything. Just about!
 

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