Non-Work Trivia

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This was forwarded to me in my mailbox and I simply can’t help but share this to you.

This is fun to read.
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
orangesilver, or purple..

[][]
Dreamt‘ is the only English word that ends in the
letters ‘mt‘.

(Are you doubting this?)
[]
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.
(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.

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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 Da Vinci 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.

Now you know more than you did before!!

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  1. anne says:

    LOL had a good laugh on this Lainy hehehe. Sayang lang di ko makita yung mga cute na image. Baka slow ang Internet connection ko. BTW just came to visit you here.

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