Friday Fun: Some Useless Knowledge For You!

I’ve always joked that I know more “useless” knowledge than most.  I’m not sure why, but it probably has to do with this great book I had as a kid that was something to the effect of “encyclopedia of facts”.  I LOVED it.  It was probably about 400 pages (a BIG book) and designed for kids – filled with random information.

Today I got an email from a friend that I almost deleted (sorry Heather!).  I took and chance and opened it and there were a bunch of my random useless party entertainment facts!  So I thought I’d share.

Now you all have something to say during those awkward silences at Christmas dinner.  :)  Or while Grandma is opening her present.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand
• And “lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• 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 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.  (I always wondered why they used this for font previews!)
• 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.”  (I actually use the word facetious on a daily basis.  But I had to look up what abstemious meant!)
• 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.  (Some days that’s about what my memory span is.)
• A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second… (hah – LOVE this one!)
• 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.  (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.
• 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.  (wow – this is HORRIBLE!)
• 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 Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!

Now you know (a little) more than you did before!!