Facts

[Jamesyboi]

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

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.

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 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, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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.

Edited June 17, 2007 by Jamesyboi

[Paulbangkok]

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

????? Are you sure ?????

[Paulbangkok]

FAQ's about Sharks

Do sharks blink? Sharks don't blink. They have upper and lower eyelids, but these lids don't move and don't close over the eye.

[sceadugenga]

Seems to be some controversy on this.

Could be the type of shark with the third eyelid, they close.

[Paulbangkok]

Seems to be some controversy on this.

Could be the type of shark with the third eyelid, they close.

Do sharks blink?

Sharks don't blink. They have upper and lower eyelids, but these lids don't move and don't close over the eye. When biting prey, some sharks protect their eyes with a third eyelid called the nictitating membrane.

ok maybe i'm b eing a bit anal eh?

[Road_Runner]

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

False!!

When February Has No Full Moon

Several people have noticed that February 1999 has no Full Moon, and have asked me how often that happens.

In 1999, January and March both have two Full Moons. The second Full Moon in January occurs late on the 31st, whilst the first Full Moon of March falls close to the beginning of the month, on the 2nd.

You might guess, then, that February has no Full Moon in years when January and March have two Full Moons each. This happens, on average, about three times each century.

But are there any other situations when February misses out on a Full Moon?

YES.

Years in which February has no Full Moon coincide exactly with those years in which there are double Blue Moons. These may be January-March doubles (the most common) or January-April or January-May doubles.

They may also be December-March doubles, such as 1933/1934. Both December 1933 and March 1934 had a Blue Moon, and February 1934 had no Full Moon.

The frequency of double Blue Moons is about 4.5 per century, so this is also the frequency with which February has no Full Moons.

Edited June 18, 2007 by Road_Runner

[Pink Mist]

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