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    Posted: January-08-2007 at 6:06pm
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?)
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> Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet you're going to check this out.)
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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.
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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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> All 50 states are listed across the top of the
> Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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> A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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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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> Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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> If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
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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.
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> Now you know everything!
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man its getting to be a looooong winter!!!
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