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. (Of course, that’s assuming that you really know how to type and don’t hunt and peck!)

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). Yes, there are many more … mom, wow, Anna …

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 who could do this, too, or would like to try!)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. (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.

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 QE 2 (ocean liner) moved only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burned.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (It’s a 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.

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