Jokes Jokes Jokes

Yeah, you may have seen most of this before - BUT . . . . . . .

Do you remember it - until prompted? Check it out!

This is interesting!  Learn something new everyday....

• '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!!