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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
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 '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 who 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 are like that too.)
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bandslast 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.
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.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
with your right hand.
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.
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.
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.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds .
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
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