Did you know:
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room at a dance?
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room at a dance?
►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, QE 2 moves just six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
►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... it's 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.
►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.
►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).
►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.
►"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
►And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
►The microwave was invented by accident: 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.
►Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
.►Almonds are a member of the peach family.
And the bonus: the cumulative weight of all of the ants in Africa weigh more than the sum of ALL the elephants!
Obviously I have no idea if all this is true...
just one of those emails, ya know
-thx Speedunque-
