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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Health Advice & Longivity

** Keep taking the pills ~

Arnie went to see his doctor and told him that he hadn't been feeling at all well. The doctor examined Arnie, left the room, and came back with three different bottles of pills.

Looking at Arnie he says, "Take the green pill with a big glass of water when you wake up. Take the blue pill with a big glass of water after you eat lunch. Then just before going to bed, take the red pill with another big glass of water."

Startled to be put on so much medicine, the man stammered, "L ... L ... Lummee, Doc, exactly what is my problem?"

The doctor replied, "Arnie, you're not drinking enough water."

** Secret elixir of longevity?

Gloria, out for a walk, notices this little all wrinkled up old man rocking in a chair on his porch and approaches him.

"I can't help noticing how happy you look," Gloria smiles at him, "What is your secret for a long happy life?"

"I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he replied, "I also drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise."

"That's amazing!" Gloria responds, "How old are you?"

"Twenty-six," he replies.

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Strange But True Hospital Stories

** Let's call him Mr. Brown ~ The true story

A woman telephoned St Mary’s Hospital and asked to speak to Ward E2 as she was enquiring as to the progress of one of the patient’s in that ward. She explained that she wanted to know if the patient was getting better, doing as expected or getting worse.

A staff nurse answered the phone, "Hallo, Ward E2. What is the name of the patient and his room number?"

"He is in bed 1, room 10, "came the reply, "And his name is Albert Brown."

"Could you hold the line for a moment, "the nurse asked, "While I check his records ... Ah, yes, Mr Brown is doing well: blood pressure OK, blood test results appear normal, he’s going to be taken off the heart monitor and if he continues to improve then Doctor Svoboda is going to send him home tomorrow at midday."

"Oh, that’s super, amazing, I’m so pleased to hear the news; it really is fantastic, thank you so much."

"You sound so glad,"replied the nurse, "and so enthusiastic you must be a close friend or a relative of Mr Brown."

The man answered, "Not exactly, I’m Albert Brown in Ward E2, room 10, bed 1. Nobody in here ever tells me anything."

Footnote:

In case you are wondering, Albert's day job is a ventriloquist. While this is a strange but true story, all other details have been changed to protect the innocent.

** This one is joke, but could be true ~

While working as a radiology technician in a hospital emergency room, I took some X-rays of a trauma patient and took the results to the senior radiologist, who studied the multiple fractures of the femurs and pelvis.

'What on earth happened to this patient?' he asked in astonishment.

'He fell out of a tree,' according to the report.

The radiologist wanted to know what the patient was doing up a tree.

'I'm not sure, but his paperwork states he works for Mark's Expert Tree Pruning Service.'

Gazing intently at the X-rays, the radiologist blinked and said, 'Cross out 'expert.'

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