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Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-04 08:10:32

The_Drifter
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SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING? "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. 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". 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). 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." 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 a memory span of three seconds. 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. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 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. 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, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 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 everything!

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	Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-04 08:20:53
the_ox 1300cc Superstar Joined: Saturday, October 30, 2004 Posts: 8803 Location: London United Kingdom	Mornin Drifty, knew a few of them. We used to use them in our quiz night here. Hows Damascus getting along/ Hope ya well and the family. oxo

	Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-04 11:35:47
ohsomadeddie 1300cc Superstar Joined: Monday, June 27, 2005 Posts: 705 Location: bottom of a newki broon bottle United Kingdom	been eatin penguins lately? lol

	Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-04 12:18:05
hagasan 600cc Boy Racer Joined: Friday, January 05, 2007 Posts: 125 Location: cleveland United Kingdom	you forgot this one........... it always rains after haga washes and polishes his bike

	Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-05 08:58:43
Roeby 1300cc Superstar Joined: Posts: 8884 Location: Derbyshire United Kingdom	very good drifter ........... i still maintain u make my head hurt tho cos u always make me think about stuff lol

	Think you know everything? - Posted on 2007-02-05 14:32:38
daisyduke 1300cc Superstar Joined: Saturday, February 04, 2006 Posts: 4574 Location: Bolton United Kingdom	nice to see you back with yet more words of wisdom drifter.

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