"Stewardesses"   is the longest word
typed with only the left hand   

And "lollipop"   

is the longest word typed with your right hand. 
 
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".


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.
  

The words 'racecar,'
                            'kayak' ,   and
'level'
 are the same whether they are read
 left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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. 


 
A goldfish  has a memory span of three seconds.
 
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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.
(We ALL know some people like that!)

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.

Bonus!!  All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!


Now you know (a little) more than you
did before!!