Now You Know Everything !

[peter991]

Now you know everything !

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. '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', 'madam' 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 is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also)

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, 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!!

[monty]

Sorry to refute at least one thing in your list!

The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

is what you state.

In reality:

Cunard state that their liner, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, travels 49.5 ft (15.1 m) per 1 imperial gallon (4.546 l) of diesel oil, and that it has a passenger capacity of 1777.[22] From those figures, fuel consumption can be calculated as 0.009375 miles per imperial gallon (30,130 L/100 km). Carrying 1777 passengers, that equates to 16.7 miles per imperial gallon (16.9 L/100 km) per passenger.

[chavy]

Sorry to refute at least one thing in your list!

The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

is what you state.

In reality:

Cunard state that their liner, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, travels 49.5 ft (15.1 m) per 1 imperial gallon (4.546 l) of diesel oil, and that it has a passenger capacity of 1777.[22] From those figures, fuel consumption can be calculated as 0.009375 miles per imperial gallon (30,130 L/100 km). Carrying 1777 passengers, that equates to 16.7 miles per imperial gallon (16.9 L/100 km) per passenger.

So there !!!

[Thaddeus]

Can I have a go.....

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

It is a common myth that nothing rhymes with the above words. However, each has a least one rhyme:

Purple rhymes with hirple and curple

Month rhymes with uneath (a very obscure and now archaic word meaning "difficult")

Silver rhymes with several words, including: cilver, filver, and hilver

Orange rhymes with several words,including: sporange, and door hinge.

With the exception of "sporange" (a term in microbiology), all of the rhymes are obscure and not in common use.

[eefoo]

Can I have a go.....

It is a common myth that nothing rhymes with the above words. However, each has a least one rhyme:

Purple rhymes with hirple and curple

Month rhymes with uneath (a very obscure and now archaic word meaning "difficult")

Silver rhymes with several words, including: cilver, filver, and hilver

Orange rhymes with several words,including: sporange, and door hinge.

With the exception of "sporange" (a term in microbiology), all of the rhymes are obscure and not in common use.

And unless you pronounce 'uneath' as 'unth', not exactly a rhyme at all ......

[zzdocxx]

Now you know everything !

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

Yeah something else, a month without a full moon, it is called a "black moon", but it happens for sure. The last one was in 1999, the next one will be in 2018, you can look it up on Wikipedia.

Funny thing is, this guy in northern California, about 30 years ago, learned that it was a black moon, then he got the idea that he would try to go surfing every day until the next black moon, which was like 18 years later. Which he managed somehow to do.

They had him on television, he was married with a kid or two. His wife had a steady job, while he had tried flipping burgers a time or two but he "just wasn't into it".

Now you know more than you did before!!

This is a pretty good game, keep the hits coming! ! !

[Goyave]

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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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Another myth!

Mythbusters tested the myth that goldfish only had a memory span of 3 seconds and were able to prove that goldfish had a longer memory span than commonly believed. This was done by making goldfish go through a maze over a period of time. It was evident that they were able to remember the way and that they therefore had a memory span of over three seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish