[Grovenet] Hosstyle Info for Wednesday October 18, 2006

[Meredith Bliss]

Looks like someone had way too much time on their hands ...

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:04, Alan et_al wrote:
> Do you know everything?
>       "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the
> left hand and
> "lollipop" with your right.
>       It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
>       Maine is the only state whose name is just one
> syllable.  
>       No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
> silver, or
> purple.
>       "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
> "mt".
>       Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
> and ears
> never stop growing.
>       The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same
> whether they are
> read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
>       There are only four words in the English language which
> end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
> 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.
>       All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
> Memorial on
> the back of the $5 bill A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
>       A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
>       A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. (but who really
> cares?)
>       A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
>       A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
>       A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second.
>       A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A
> snail can
> sleep for three years.
>       Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
> dealer.
>       Almonds are fruit.
>       An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>       Butterflies taste with their feet.
>       Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have
> about 10.
>       February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
> have a full moon.
>       If the population of China walked past you, in single
> file, the line
> would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>       If you are an average American, in your whole life, you
> will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
>       Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
>       On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
> Parliament
> building is an American flag.
>       Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
>       The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
>       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 winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
> completely solid.
>       There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
>       There are more chickens than people in the world.
>       There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable
> Vitamins.
>       Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
>       Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
> dance.
>       Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>       Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
> weeks;
> otherwise it will digest itself.
>
> ~alan~Now you know everything!~Hoss

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