• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand on your keyboard.
• And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand on your keyboard.
• 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’.
• Our eyes are always the same sizefrom 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.
• The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ 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 end in ‘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 only on one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 DaVinci invented the scissors.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
• Rubberbands 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.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Winston Churchillwas born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

posted by kaptnk \\ tags: Bullets, Facts

Hard questions that matter, like “can a pregnant woman drive in the carpool lane?” or “how can I win at that ultra-important-corporate-decision-making- process, rock-paper-scissor?” and of course, “is turkey a country or a bird first?”. Wait, is it *really* a natural bird? Never mind - don’t answer that.

The folks at mental_floss were friendly enough to let us feature their stuff - something that will become a regular feature here at Neatorama (so be kind to them and visit their brand new and very chic blog, ok?). The text is verbatim from the articles, although I did add links, pics, videos and probably a couple of typos.

Let’s go to the list, already:

For the complete list, click the link.

posted by kaptnk \\ tags: 14, 51, 61, 70, 71, 9