Steve Says

This is the body of an email ai got today- some interesting stuff...  Have I looked any of the stuff that's not common knowledge up to confirm? Nope!

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 Da Vinci  invented the  scissors    

 

Peanuts  are  one of the ingredients of  dynamite!  
 

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.  

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.  

 
'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. 

 

 
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.'