Already know these things?
1. "Stewardess" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, and "lollipop" is the longest word typed with only the right hand.
2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that end with the letters "mt".
3. Our eyes are always the same size from our birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
4. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
5. There are only 4 words in the English language which end on "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, aren't you?
6. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious". (Yes, admit, you are going to say, a e i o u)
7. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typist are going to test this.)
8. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
9. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
10. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
11. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
12. There are more chicken than people in the world.
13. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Now you more than you did before!!! ;)
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