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Offline Eddy Matthews

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« on: November 17, 2007, 06:25:04 PM »
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand .. And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.

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 sizefrom 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 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. (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.

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 shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

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.

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 DaVinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bandslast longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel 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.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



Now you know more than you did before!!
~ Never, ever, argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience ~

Offline mjt60a

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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2007, 02:30:14 AM »
"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds"....
....how did they figure that out?
Posted by Mick.
(.....gonna need a bigger boat.....)

thewharfonline

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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2007, 11:43:41 PM »
because it went round the bowl once and said it would never do it again.

And then it did, said it never wanted to do it again.

And then it did...

Some great facts there Eddie. I had to check with the "quick brown fox" one...I now realise why they use it as a typing test.

Sean

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« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2007, 11:43:41 PM »
because it went round the bowl once and said it would never do it again.

And then it did, said it never wanted to do it again.

And then it did...

Some great facts there Eddie. I had to check with the "quick brown fox" one...I now realise why they use it as a typing test.

Sean

 

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