Yoi Ohanashi de WA!! in 英語コミュのWORTH READING General Knowledge...(again)

> '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)

> 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.!)

> 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.

> 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.