Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Random Stuff

'Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.

‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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.

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 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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. 

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.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

 

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