Knowitall

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".

~ 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 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.)

~ Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

~ 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 microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

~ 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 everything!