Interesting...

Here are a few interesting and unusual facts that I did not know...maybe you did:

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand (if you type correctly – not like me with just a couple of fingers!)

• "Lollipop" is the longest word typed with only the right hand

• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing on a regular keyboard

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

• Dreamt is the only word in English that ends with ‘mt’

• Our eyes remain the same size from our birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing

• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the alphabet

• The words ‘race car,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left – these are called "palindromes."

• There are only four words in the English language that end in ‘dous’

Tremendous

Horrendous

Stupendous

Hazardous

• There are two words in English that have all the vowels in order

Abstemious

Facetious

• "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letter on one row of the keyboard

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear 

• A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds

• A ‘jiffy’ is and actual unit of time for 1/100^th of a second

• The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes 

• A snail can sleep for three years

• Almonds are members of the peach family

• An ostrich’s eye is larger than its brain

• Babies are born without kneecaps – they don’t appear until the child is 2 – 6 years of age

• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon

• In the last 4000 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

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors 

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated

• The cruise liner QE 2, moved only 6 inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked past a radar tube and had a chocolate bar melt 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

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men