March 11, 2006
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Another random mood…
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.
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”.
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. (I already knew that!
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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).
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 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 “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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.
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.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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.
hehe!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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. right! “Chicken run??
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Hehe!
…Now you know everything!
Comments (9)
wow, anybody who reads that really will know everything!!! how are you Kristi? Japan is pretty boring except for yesterday our middle school girls’ basketball team came in first place in the tournament! i was the point guard and my friends, moe and karin were the shooting and wing guards…it was soooooo much fun!!! talk to you later! ~ Elizabeth
wow, that’s amazing! i feel so enlightened it’s amazing! my mind is swimming with awesome facts and you are
awesome too! so great post!
I did it! I sneezed with my eyes open!
Are you sure that the reproduction rate of China would maintain itself,
in light of the fact that they produce so many more boys than girls?
Ok new almost 50% of it, but very good i guess.! And um ya china will kill its self with only guys and no galls (just a fact of life)
That’s . . . pretty . . . amazing. Where’d you get all that info???
babies don’t have kneecaps?? That’s not true….how do they fall and not hurt themselves?? That’s weird. ;o)
purty intresting!!! I haven’t talked to you in forever….love you much!
wow…um…ya..i know some of those thing’s but some of them were..well just weird…ok, i was just stopping by to say hi! i’ll talk to you later. ~Ashley B. : ) and as you can tell i now have a xanga, so stop on by! : )
yep..we are going sightseeing and hanging out (you know talking, playing games). I’m really looking forward to it. For one thing, I get to skip co-op (hehehe)…and I get to see my bro (always a plus)!!! ;o)
I agree, we should talk….whether it’s over email (though that’s kind of hard), or getting together with other girls or by ourselves.
o.k have a marvelous week!! love you.