Things you didn't know or don't need to know. 08-21-17

 On a strange, abnormal day, here is a strange, abnormal post. But the little pictures would not transfer, but the message is the same.   Enjoy!  Del

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"Stewardesses"

is the longest word typed with only the left hand

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And "lollipop" 
is the longest word typed with your right hand. 
 

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, 
but our nose and ears never stop growing. 
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The sentence:  "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. 
  

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The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' , and 'level'
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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." 
  
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 
  
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

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A  goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 
  
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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

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A  shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
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A snail can sleep for three years. 
  
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Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
(I know some  people like that also) 
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Babies are born without kneecaps.   They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 
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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 


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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
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The cruise  liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 
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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.) 
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. 

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There are more chickens than people in the world. 
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Winston  Churchill 
was born in a  ladies' room during a dance. 
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
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Bonus!! All the  ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the  Elephants!! 
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Now you know (a  little) more than you did before!!
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