For those who thought they knew just about everything they needed to know.
Here is a list of general knowledge facts that I'm willing to bet you didn't know.
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>"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.
>Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
(I'll bet you're going to check this out.)
>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)
>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 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.
>If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend
an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
>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 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
>There are more chickens than people in the world.
>There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
>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.
>Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
THERE!..................Now you know everything!
[I hope]
Now figure out how much time you just wasted reading useless trivia.
