More Totally Useless but Fasacinating Information
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:20 pm
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with only the right.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (Unless you count "burple"....)
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Our eyes are 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, the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (Unless you count "burple"....)
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Our eyes are 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, the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
