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SO YOU THINK YOU
KNOW EVERYTHING?
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.
Our eyes are always the
same size from birth, but our nose and ears never st op 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 two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."(Yes, admit it, you
a re 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)
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 snail can sleep for
three years.(I know some people that could do this too.)
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 cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
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.
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Bet you didn't know.....
- It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head
in the sand, or attempted to do so.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere in the picture.
- In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.
- Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
- Cat urine glows under a black-light.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting
and pecking doesn't count!).
- A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
- The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled"
could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries.
"Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's
"It's a Wonderful Life."
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Hey kids, do you have imagination? Want to use it?
Arts and crafts lessons 8 sessions twice a week for 1:45 min. in Khalifa A
Click here for more information about workshops
A fun site for games and stories...check it out!
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