I Didn't Know That!?

Enright

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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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?)
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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.)

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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?)
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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, youare going to say . a e i o u)
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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)
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)
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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)
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Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
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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.
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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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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)
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Now you know everything!??

MistressPandora

That made for good reading, but what was with all the question marks?

Gordon

They were probably a copypaste from an email, that's your standard office email right there! Although, this one had more than its fair share of annoying comments after each factlet.

Hagar

Enright wrote:

No word in the English language rhymes with month...

Wanna bet?;)

conformist

are these jokes? or humorous?

spudington16

conformist wrote:

are these jokes? or humorous?

No, but some are mildly interesting... Take it easy, Conformist. However, I did note that at least one is not correct; Da Vinci didn't invent the scissors... Perhaps we could try to crack more of these "facts"?

Hagar

Conformist is taking it real easy now. See here.

Insect Overlord

spudington16 wrote:

Perhaps we could try to crack more of these "facts"?

enright wrote:

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)

I'm pretty sure this was proved to be false, but I can't remember where I heard so...

KamiKazi

^^mythbusters

Plug

Hagar wrote:

Conformist is taking it real easy now. See here.

Why arn't you in the league of b@stards:p



now this is a joke, no banning please:(

Hagar

Plug wrote:

Why arn't you in the league of b@stards:p

Only SMods and higher life forms have the power to siteban.
Mods can only report a muppet the same way you do.

Plug wrote:

now this is a joke, no banning please:(

I'm bad but I'm not that bad...

mathias

a lot of the ones with questions marks near the end are completely false , some are just incorrect in details , among the ones I was amazed to find are correct though are this one ,

The Jiffy actually is a unit of time , although there are four variations of it and none of them is 1/100th of a second,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29

And of all things , the Niagara falls one ,
The year was wrong though , it was 1911 ,

Ridiculous ones are peanuts in Dynamite and the Scissors being invented by Da Vinci , I was in Egypt last year in the vally of the kings and there are depictions of burials with the attendants using scissors , I dont think Da vinci was around then.