Friday, November 18, 2011

Power of the Human Mind! :D

'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.  


The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. Pretty cool, huh?
 

 
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 on one row of the keyboard.
 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


 
A goldfish   has a memory span of three seconds. (Somedays 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...)





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 bands last longer when refrigerated.
 


The average person's left hand does 56%  of the typing.





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.



Now you know more than you did before! :) That's the power of the human mind!

2 comments:

  1. sorry if you can't see the pictures. if you could they would move, so it's very sad if you can't. they're awesome. :(

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  2. Yeah I couldn't see any. But hey awesome facts. They blow my mind! :D

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