Post by "Pop" Stran on Aug 2, 2003 11:03:36 GMT -5
* "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand;
lollipop" with your right.
* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
* The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
* 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.
* The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* 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."
* There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
lollipop" with your right.
* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
* The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
* 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.
* The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* 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."
* There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.