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".
The sentence: "The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
( I know you are
going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
(Are you doubting
this?)
(I bet you are going
to say: "a, e, i, o, u".
(Test this out)
"Stewardesses"
is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
(You tried this
out mentally, didn't you ?)
The words "racecar,"
"radar," "madam," kayak" and "level" are
the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
(Palindromes).
Babies are born
without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of
age.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.
Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
A goldfish has a
memory span of three seconds.
A crocodile cannot
stick out its tongue.
A snail can sleep
for three years.
A shark is the only fish
that can blink with both eyes.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Tigers have
striped skin, not just striped fur.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average American
motorist, in his lifetime, will spend an average of 6 months waiting for
red lights to turn green.
Leonardo Da Vinci, who could write with one
hand and draw with the other, invented
the scissors.
Winston
Churchill, who smoked between 8 to 10 cigars a day, and drank at least 22 shots
of cognac and champagne a day, was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Now you know
everything !
