KillerMuffin
Seraphically Disinclined
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Is nevertheless one word or three? I never remember
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try
this at work!)
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Among other things, Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. (Presbyterian)
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed
in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
A dentist invented the electric chair. (Does that one really surprise any of us?)
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1000 & a size of 108.7 acres.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
No president of the United States was an only child.
And last and definitely most important: The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try
this at work!)
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Among other things, Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. (Presbyterian)
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed
in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
A dentist invented the electric chair. (Does that one really surprise any of us?)
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1000 & a size of 108.7 acres.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
No president of the United States was an only child.
And last and definitely most important: The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
