March 10, 2010   History Trivia , Inspiration , Nature , Technology

Unverified Trivia

Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand...

• Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• 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'.
• 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 the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes) .
• There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• 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. 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.
• 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.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid .
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.