SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I’ll bet you’re going to check this out.)

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)

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. (but who really cares?)

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

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.)

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

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, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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 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 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Now you know everything!

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>From a friend:

> ‘On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament

> building is an American flag.’

Err, I like the rest of the list, but this one is actually an urban legend. On the Canadian $2 bill, the flag is actually the “Canton” or the “Red Ensign.” It looks similar to the American flag, but it is not the same.

http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

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> SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
>
> “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
> “lollipop” with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t
> you?)

I’ve no idea as to its veracity, which is doubtful given the many false or facile claims presented in this list…

# It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_304.html

[snip]

#  “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. (Are you
> doubting this?)

Yes.  “Undreamt” also ends in “mt”, as in “undreamt of riches”.

[snip]

# 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?)

This is laughable.  Let’s give the whole list, eh?

acanthocladous
acanthopodous
acromyodous
adenopodous
aeluropodous
alectoropodous
amblypodous
amphipodous
anarthropodous
anisomyodous
anisopodous
annelidous
apodous
arthropodous
avidous
binodous
blizzardous
brachiopodous
brachypodous
branchiopodous
cecidomyiidous
cephalopodous
chaetopodous
chilopodous
chiropodous
cirropodous
cogitabundous
condylopodous
copepodous
cynipidous
cynopodous
decapodous
discopodous
dolichopodous
frondous
gastropodous
gnathopodous
hallopodous
hazardous
hebecladous
hemapodous
heteropodous
hexapodous
horrendous
hybridous
hypoiodous
hypovanadous
infandous
iodous
isopodous
jeopardous
laemodipodous
lagopodous
ligniperdous
macrocladous
macropodous
malacopodous
mastigopodous
mesomyodous
mirandous
molybdous
monopodous
multifidous
multinodous
myriapodous
myriopodous
myxopodous
nefandous
neuropodous
nitidous
nodous
nonhazardous
octopodous
omnimodous
ostracodous
pachycladous
pachypodous
palladous
paludous
parallepipedous
pauropodous
pelecypodous
peristeropodous
peropodous
phyllocladous
phyllopodous
platypodous
poecilopodous
polycladous
polylepidous
polymyodous
polypodous
prehazardous
pteropodous
pudendous
pygopodous
quadrupedous
repandous
rhizopodous
sarcodous
sauropodous
scaphopodous
schizopodous
sciapodous
scirtopodous
skiapodous
solipedous
steganopodous
stomapodous
stomatopodous
stupendous
syncladous
tardigradous
taxeopodous
tetradecapodous
theropodous
tremendous
trochalopodous
trochilopodous
tylopodous
unhazardous
untremendous
uropodous
vanadous
velellidous

Source: BSD /usr/share/dict/words

> 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)

Rubbish.  Here are the ones that I can find in /usr/share/dict/words:

abstemious
abstemiously
abstemiousness
abstentious
acetarious
affectious
annelidous
arsenious
arterious
bacterious
caesious
facetious
facetiously
facetiousness
fracedinous
majestious

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# A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Crapola.  It _can_ be 1/100th of a second but it is not necessarily so.

jiffy

 1. The duration of one tick of the computer’s system  clock. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and  Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec  has become common.

 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a  1-millisecond wall time interval. Even more confusingly,  physicists semi-jokingly use “jiffy” to mean the time required  for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to  be close to one *nanosecond*.

jiffy

 n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. “The swapper runs every 6 jiffies”
means that the virtual memory management routine is executed once for every 6 ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second. 2.
Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond wall time interval. 3. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use `jiffy’ to mean the time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one _nanosecond_. 4. Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever.
“I’ll do it in a jiffy” means certainly not now and possibly never.
This is a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word.
Oppose nano. See also Real Soon Now.

Source: dictionary.com

# A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Garbage: http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/sharks/faq.html#blink

ObJoke:
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How many feminists does it take to change a light globe?

“THAT’S NOT FUNNY!”