Random Fun Facts

1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2. And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
4. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
6. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
7. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
8. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
9. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
10. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
11. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
12. A snail can sleep for three years.
13. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
14. Babies are born without kneecaps.
15. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
16. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
17. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
18. If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
19. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
20. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
21. The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
22. There are more chickens than people in the world.
23. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
24. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.