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This really is interesting.......
Just keep scrolling down.
This is very interesting!
After reading it, you'll go 'duh,
I didn't know that.'
'Stewardesses'

is the longest word typed with only the left hand
And '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!!
The Rain-Thomas Kinkade

This is a Thomas Kinkade
painting It's rumored to carry a miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle. I am passing this on
because I thought it was really pretty, and besides, who couldn't use a miracle?!
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