Something to Know ( INFO TIPS )‏

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• Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.                                    
  
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• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
  
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• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)
  
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• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
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• 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?)
  
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• 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.)
  
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• 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?)
  
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• 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)
  
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• 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)
  
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• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  
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• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.  (Some days that's about what my memory span is)
  
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• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  
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• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  
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• A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)
  
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• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  
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• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
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• Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
  
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• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  
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• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  
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• If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  
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• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  
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• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
  
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• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  
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• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
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• The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
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• 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)
  
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• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
  
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• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
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• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
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• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.