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CA Swapnil (job ) (1205 Points)

24 August 2009  

This really is interesting.......


Just keep scrolling down.
 This is very interesting!  After reading it, you'll go 'duh, I didn't know that.'

 


'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 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 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