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| 1. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. 2. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language. 3. A snail can sleep for 3 years. 4. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. 5. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 6. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 8. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters. 9. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. 10. No president of the United States was an only child. 11. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. 12. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's. 13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver,orange, or purple. 14. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 15. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." 16. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 17. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 18. There are more chickens than people in the world. 19. The longest word without a vowel is "rhythm." 20. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. 21. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 22. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge 23. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 24. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 25. If you were to spell out numbers, you'd have to go up to a thousand before you'd find the letter a. 26. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. 27. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 28. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 29. Almonds are a member of the peach family. 30. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." 31. All porcupines float in water. 32. The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan. 33. Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can. 34. Stressed spelled backward is desserts. 35. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes, when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from. 36. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 37. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteenrows. 38. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the Englishlanguage. 39. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. 40. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 41. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." 42. All porcupines float in water. 43. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 44. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 45. Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards. |
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