This is one of my favorite phrases to use with my friends - did you know? I also like to tell them 'you learn something new everyday' when they didn't know so.
My friend, Jessica, forwarded me something with LOTS of things that I learned new. I would now like to share them with all you people of the Internet.
*NOTE: I've received many facts- so some of them are hidden deep within my blog. Just an FYI. ;)
My friend, Jessica, forwarded me something with LOTS of things that I learned new. I would now like to share them with all you people of the Internet.
*NOTE: I've received many facts- so some of them are hidden deep within my blog. Just an FYI. ;)
- From Nancy Y: ONE TREE CAN MAKE 4600 MILK CARTONS! OMG! O.o
- From this one website: "We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved."
- From this one website: The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'!
- From Michael Choi: SLUGS HAVE FOUR NOSES.
- Suggested by Emily: Silent and listen have the same letters.
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- And lollipop is the longest word typed with your right hand.
- No word in the English language rhymes with purple, orange, month, and silver.
- 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 brown dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The words 'kayak', 'racecar', and 'level' can all be spelled the same forward or backward. (Also know as palindromes)
- The only 4 words in the English language that end in 'dous' are: tremendous, horrendous, hazardous, and stupendous.
- There are 2 words in the English language that have all 5 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.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A goldfish has the memory span of 3 seconds. (poor goldfish)
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years!! (Sometimes I wish I could do that....)
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain!! (I know some people like this... Or a lot, actually..)
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear til the child is 2 to 6 yrs of age.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- Leonardo da Vinci (painter of the famous Mona Lisa) invented scissors.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients to dynamite!!
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated!
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns!
- 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 :D)
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid!
- There are more chickens than people in the world! (chicken domination!!!! ahhh!!!!)
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Tell me any facts that aren't on here!
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