Some Silly Facts

Written on 2:39 AM by Mrudula

• A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
• 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 passed you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
• “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The longest place-name still in use is for a hill in New Zealand: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu
• 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.
• The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid..
• The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
• Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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