More random info you may not know

[Chips]

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand

And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.

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 sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

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.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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.

Almonds are a member of the peach

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.

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.

Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!


Now you know (a little) more than you did before!!

[Maria F]

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand


No word in the English language rhymes with orange.

Now you know (a little) more than you did before!!

I love your random facts

I just wanted to mention that word gorange rhymes with orange. It means to binge, like having a case of the munchies.

[ocreditor]

Love it I wonder why women blink so much more than men though..

[Anthony-Coral]

Its also true that a goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds

[Maria F]

Love it I wonder why women blink so much more than men though..

Is because blinking is a reflex that is started by a sudden noise. Studies show that women react more quickly than men to these sudden noises, and blink both twice as hard and often as men.

[Anthony-Coral]

Is it weird to have a favourite palindrome?

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[xecutable]

Is because blinking is a reflex that is started by a sudden noise. Studies show that women react more quickly than men to these sudden noises, and blink both twice as hard and often as men.

And to make it full: "Another interesting piece of data; lesbians will blink less severely than heterosexual women, and gay men will blink more severely than heterosexual men. Because blinking is a reflex and isn't learned, some argue that the rate of your blinking can determine whether you will grow up to be homo or heterosexual"

[Anthony-Coral]

Its also true that a goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds

[Gabriel_LCP]

First off im never getting a Goldfish, it will have no idea who I am... thats no fun!

You had me thinking about stuff that rhymed with those words... could find any! Im sure there are some!

I dont think I trust Microwaves anymore, there has to be some kind of side-effect to the food we heat up thats dangerous to us over time... Or is it me being paranoid??

Thanks for sharing! Those trivia facts are always welcome!

[DaftDog]

First off im never getting a Goldfish, it will have no idea who I am... thats no fun!

You had me thinking about stuff that rhymed with those words... could find any! Im sure there are some!

I dont think I trust Microwaves anymore, there has to be some kind of side-effect to the food we heat up thats dangerous to us over time... Or is it me being paranoid??

Thanks for sharing! Those trivia facts are always welcome!

My Gran felt the same about electric stoves.

Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand when scared or threatened.

[Anthony-Coral]

Legendary Poet, Activist and Jazz-Funk Pioneer; Gil Scott Heron had a father named Gil who was not only an opera singer but became the first black athlete to play for the famous Glasgow Celtic football Club

[JackpotParty_Roxy]

This is really cool! Thanks for these!

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Funnily enough, my friend and I were having a discussion about how much chicken people eat, and how there couldn't possibly be enough in this world to feed us all. If each person ate at least one chicken a day (some have the capability of doing more - tried it myself!), would there still be enough chicken to go around in the years to come?

P.s. Yes we have strange conversations!

[SlotsAff]

Weird yet wonderful facts As for goldfish memory, no-one will forget "that" Barcelona conference HodgeyBoy!

[Anthony-Coral]

Look into my eyes, not around my eyes but right into my eyes.............

You will all forget *that* incident in Barcelona

[finger click]

and you're BACK IN THE ROOM!

[TheCanadianGambler]

I dont think I trust Microwaves anymore, there has to be some kind of side-effect to the food we heat up thats dangerous to us over time... Or is it me being paranoid??

Before I knew more about "Microwave Radiation", I felt the same way. I always associated the word Radiation with something that is radioactive, but in this case it just means that a signal is radiating from an antenna. A microwave is basically any signal that is transmitted at a high frequency (300MHz - 300GHz), cell phones communicate using microwave signals, along with wifi, cordless phones, etc. The only difference between the signal from your phone and the signal inside the microwave is the amount of power output.

The word Microwave comes from the fact that the wavelength is shorter at higher frequencies - the wavelength is the amount of time it takes for each cycle to complete in a sinusoidal signal:



If you increase the frequency, it takes less time for a cycle to complete, making the wavelength shorter. Get to a high enough frequency, and they call it a microwave.

Now, you take that signal with a very short wavelength, increase the power, and point it at some food. It will cause the molecules to vibrate and rub against each other, causing friction which heats up the food.

The reason it's dangerous to living things, is because it causes those vibrations at a molecular level, and can change the cells inside your body, possibly causing cancer (which is essentially unregulated cell growth starting from an abnormal cell). In comparison, a radioactive source fires off parts of atoms that can pass through your body and change some cells along the way, again possibly causing cancer.

So you're not adding anything to the food you heat up in a microwave oven, you're just firing a signal at it to shake things up a bit.

And now you know... the rest of the story.