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TRIVIA ........................... !"
'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 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 t hat'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.
[ ]
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
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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
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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?!
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