DID YOU KNOW?
~ Author unknown ~
Here are some very interesting facts which you may have already heard, but why not use them with your family? Share some of these with your children while sitting at a computer keyboard. The others pertain to the English language, or give details about the human body, animals, inventions, and history. They would make good topics of conversation at the dinner table.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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).
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."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
~ Author unknown ~
Here are some very interesting facts which you may have already heard, but why not use them with your family? Share some of these with your children while sitting at a computer keyboard. The others pertain to the English language, or give details about the human body, animals, inventions, and history. They would make good topics of conversation at the dinner table.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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).
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."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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