Stewardesses' is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with
month , orange, silver, or purple.
' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
(Are you doubting this?)
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 dog'
uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds .
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
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 three years.
(I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also . Actually I know A LOT of people like this!)
Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 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 invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of 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 that 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.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid .
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Now you know more than you did before!!
The Rain-Thomas Kinkade
This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to carry a miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.
I am passing this on because I thought it was really pretty,
and besides, who couldn't use a miracle?
Thanks to Jean from Catholic Fire for emailing me this.
4 comments:
Hi Therese - thot I'd let you know that the pics on this are not coming out .... btw, tried to click on St. Theresa's Roses blog today and it is gone ?????
I'm going back to work tomorrow - 1/2 the rest of this week and then full time next week. I feel better, but I have so enjoyed my time at home. Hubby said if I had wanted to be a woman of leisure, I should have married wealthy - I said, "I chose to marry for LOVE!"
God bless you and my deepest and sincere thanks for all your prayers and for being my friend across the water.
Love,
Abbey
Abbey,
Marilena has started a new blog called A Traditional Catholic. It is in the sidebar under Catholic Ladies.
I am glad you are able to go back to work. I would love to be at home with just my husband but I am sure my time will come. I hope your husband feels appreciated after What you said.
Hey Therese! The one about the infant knee caps got me curious so I found this:
http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids.html
which pretty much debunks a lot of these "facts". They're still kind of fun to read though!
Thanks for the link Laura.
I did wonder about Winston Churchhill being born in a ladies room.
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