SO YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW 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?) Maineis the only state in the USA 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, admitit, youaregoing 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 LincolnMemorial on the back of the $5 bill. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 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. 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.
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. 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 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. ..................Now you know everything!
Cupie said
02:27 PM Jan 20, 2019
Interesting reading Bobdown ..
But ...
Just for interest, I fact checked one of them .... The USA flag on the Canadian $2 note. Didn't seem right to me.
Now there's nit picking for you. Get a lot of that don't we. LOL LOL
Thanks for the post.
Bobdown said
02:52 PM Jan 20, 2019
Well spotted Cupie,
Looks like it had a few Canadians worried about their money, probably made in China.
Cheers Bobdown
Cupie said
04:01 PM Jan 20, 2019
More likely in Australia. Which is a surprise but I'm sure that some Chinese Entrepreneur has had a go. I seem to recall that our mint produces the polymer currency for several countries. I know that Canada uses Polymer notes.
A short search revealed this ...
Note Printing Australia (a wholly owned subsidiary of the RBA) prints regular and commemorative banknotes for circulation, and has done so for 20 countries.
dorian said
05:32 PM Jan 20, 2019
Bobdown wrote:
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
However, that stat is grossly out of proportion even for a ship as large as the QE2 and is easily disproved with one other figure: her fuel capacity is, according to Cunard, about one million gallons. If the QE2 really used up two gallons of fuel in traveling just one foot, then her maximum range would be a scant 94.7 miles -- a rather cumbersome inefficiency that would require her to stop for refueling about once every three hours!
Just how far can the QE2 travel on a gallon of fuel? A precise figure is difficult to reckon because many factors influence fuel efficiency and the answer is therefore variable, but if we use Cunard's figures that the ship has a million-gallon fuel capacity and a cruising range of 7,500 miles, we arrive at a rough figure of 39.6 feet per gallon. Cunard itself says that one gallon of fuel will move the QE2 about 49 feet in open seas, so we,d peg the answer at a range of around 40-50 feet per gallon.
SO YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW 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?)
Maine is the only state in the USA 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 LincolnMemorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
..................Now you know everything!
Interesting reading Bobdown ..
But ...
Just for interest, I fact checked one of them .... The USA flag on the Canadian $2 note. Didn't seem right to me.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/red-ensign-scare/
Guess what .. Wrong!
Now there's nit picking for you. Get a lot of that don't we. LOL LOL
Thanks for the post.
Looks like it had a few Canadians worried about their money, probably made in China.
Cheers Bobdown
More likely in Australia. Which is a surprise but I'm sure that some Chinese Entrepreneur has had a go. I seem to recall that our mint produces the polymer currency for several countries. I know that Canada uses Polymer notes.
A short search revealed this ...
Note Printing Australia (a wholly owned subsidiary of the RBA) prints regular and commemorative banknotes for circulation, and has done so for 20 countries.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/qe2-much-fuel/
Just how far can the QE2 travel on a gallon of fuel? A precise figure is difficult to reckon because many factors influence fuel efficiency and the answer is therefore variable, but if we use Cunard's figures that the ship has a million-gallon fuel capacity and a cruising range of 7,500 miles, we arrive at a rough figure of 39.6 feet per gallon. Cunard itself says that one gallon of fuel will move the QE2 about 49 feet in open seas, so we,d peg the answer at a range of around 40-50 feet per gallon.
Factoids Debunked & Verified, Part I:
http://jefflewis.net/factoids.html