Now you know everything... (sent to mi by Evelyn)
>THERE!.................. Now.., 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?)
> >It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
>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". (Are >you doubting this?)
> >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. (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, 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 crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. (but who really cares?)
> >A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
> >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.
> >A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
> >A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)
> >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.
> >Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
> >Butterflies taste with their feet.
> >Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
> >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.
> >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.
> >On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
> >Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
> >Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
> >The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
> >The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
> >The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)
> >The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
> >There are more chickens than people in the world.
> >Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
> >Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
> >Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> >THERE!..................Now.., you know everything !!
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