IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MAY NEED TO
Know today in work.
"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".
From birth our eyes are always the same size 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.
The words "racecar, kayak, mom, radar, 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 endin "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 on
only one row of the keyboard.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory of three seconds. Me too.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes simultaneously.
A snail can sleep for three years. Me too.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Mine too.
Babies are born without kneecaps they don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age. I dunno?
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon. Remember?
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China paraded past you, 8 abreast, the parade
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Scissor too.
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 fuel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Whe you flush the average toilet, the "spray" fills about 80 sq feet
- move the toothbrushes.
Observations and Questions |
Interesting stuff, eh??
Birth Announcements and Dusty Death Notices |
Born this date in 1955 Kelsey Grammer St Thomas Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser). And in the death notices in 1985 Clarence Nash voice of Donald Duck, dies at 80 of leukemia, in California.
Holidays and Special Dates Today Around the World |
US : John Glenn Day (1962)
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