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. ;)
  • 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!