did you know

      Stewardesses  is the longest  word Typed with only  the left hand.   

 And  'lollipop'  is  the longest  word typed With your right hand.   (Bet you  tried this out mentally, didn't  you?) 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  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.  (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 possibly 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) A  cat has 32 muscles in each ear.     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.!)Almonds are  a member of  the peach    family.An  ostrich's eye is bigger than its  brain.

(I know  some people like that also .   Actually I know A LOT of people like  this!)    

 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  bands last 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 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 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.