| | "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (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' 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. |
| | 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, QE2, 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. |