Amazing Facts We didn't learn this in school Posted by Stranger on 5:50 AM Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Email to friend

• '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) .. (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 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)


• 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, 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