Trivia Fun

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
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And "lollipop"
is the longest word typed with your right hand.

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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.  (I definitely knew that, it's become very obvious)
 
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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.  (old, everybody knows that)


 
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The words 'racecar,'
'kayak' and 'level'
are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
 
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous"; tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous (I've been called all of them at one time or another)

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

(It's facetious to think I'd be abstemious)

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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Me too!)
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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 
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A snail can sleep for three years.

(Me too!)

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Almonds are a member of the peach family.

(Me too!)
 
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(Not me, I don't have very big eyes)
 
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
 
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
 
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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
(Least of all, men)
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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

 
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
 
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The cruise liner, QE 2
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
 
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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.)
 
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.  (This year was so cold I froze completely solid)

 
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
 
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Winston Churchill

was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
 
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 
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Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!