Abstemious
and facetious
: The
two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order.
Almonds :
A member of the peach family.
Babies
: Humans born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Blink
: Something women do nearly twice as much as men.
Cat
: Animal that has 32 muscles in each ear.
Chickens : There are more chickens
than
people in the world.
China
: If the
population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never
end because of the rate of reproduction.
Domestication
: In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Dreamt
: The only
English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
Eyes :
Always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
February 1865
: The
only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Goldfish
: Fish
that has a memory span of three seconds.
Left
hand
: The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Leonardo
Da
Vinci : Man who
invented the scissors
Lollipop
: The longest word typed with your right hand.
Microwave
:
Something that was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Ostrich
: A bird
whose eye is bigger than its brain.
Peanuts
: One of the ingredients of dynamite!
QE 2
: The cruise liner
that
moves only
six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Rubber bands
: They
last longer when refrigerated.
Sentence
: 'The
quick
brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
uses every letter of
the alphabet.
Shark
: The only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Snail
: A slow-moving gastropods that can sleep for three
years.
Stewardesses
: The longest word typed with only the left hand.
Tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous
: The only four words
in
the
English language which end in 'dous':
Typewriter
: The longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard
Winston
Churchill : Man who was born
in a ladies' room during a
dance.
Winter
of 1932
: Season that was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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