[bumpkin]

Here are some amusing bits of trivia.

 

'Stewardesses' Is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

 And 'lollipop'   Is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

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.
(Are you doubting this?)

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.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?

The words 'racecar,'   'kayak' and 'level'   are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
   
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not doubting this, are you?)   
 
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e I o u)

TYPEWRITER     is the longest word That can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out)
 
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

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. (I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.   

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 (and they tell me to reduce my carbon footprint!!)
 
The microwave   was invented  after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did that.)   
 
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.
 
Now you know more than you did before!!   

[Shambles]

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

I can sleep better now 

There are more chickens than people in the world.  

Get eating, folks

[eye30]

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

This about sums up the people on my team in work!!!!

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

I remember it well.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors  

I thought that was the (scissor) sisters

Good one's and all true  

[Dazzler]

The winter of 1932 was so cold that  Niagara Falls froze completely solid...

I'd like to see (a photo) of that!

A quick search of the 'net reveals that the Niagra Falls never completely freezes over.

[Dazzler]

A quick search of the 'net reveals that the Niagra Falls never completely freezes over.

Who's a fun spoiler then...

[bumpkin]

Yeah I had a gander too Oggie and there is some debate about whether it was 1932 or 1911, nobody seems too sure.  In both these years it would appear that it froze momentarily and there was definitely enough ice on the upper layers to walk on however the water was still flowing beneath the ice layer.

There is one instance in the 1800s where the flow of the falls did completely stop for a number of hours though.

Brian

[Rubix]

Yeah I had a gander too Oggie and there is some debate about whether it was 1932 or 1911, nobody seems too sure.  In both these years it would appear that it froze momentarily and there was definitely enough ice on the upper layers to walk on however the water was still flowing beneath the ice layer.

There is one instance in the 1800s where the flow of the falls did completely stop for a number of hours though.

Brian

Either Global Warming is a farce and it'll be freezing again soon, or it's not and it'll never freeze again. Taking bets...

[bumpkin]

I am with the farce idea myself, somebody needs to note that "climate change" as it is now called put paid to dinosaurs and they certainly were not driving around all day pumping out carbonated gasses.  Remember about 10 years ago we were told that the reason the ice caps were melting was due to the great hole in the ozone layer which was preventing the damaging rays of the sun from being filtered properly and causing the melting?  At the time we were instructed to go CFC friendly, but even though the hole would take hundreds if not thousands of years to repair.  The hole is virtually gone and oddly enough when said hole was bigger the planet was colder, now it's closing we are warming up (a little).  Seems obvious to me that this is the cyclical nature of our planet and since the hole has only been seen once that this has been a cause all along.  There is strong scientific evidence to suggest that mankind has contributed to the acceleration of the cycle but is not the CAUSE of it, that is just mother nature adjusting to keep the balance.............................................discuss!!

[Dazzler]

Hi Brian,

Interesting about the hole in the ozone layer closing up. The hole was apparently positioned over Tasmania (general area... ) so it's good if it's closing up..as skin cancer rates are fairly high here for a temperate climate. :biggrin:

[Shambles]

That's news to me Dazz - thanks - wasn't aware of the specific climate problem in your area 

[Dazzler]

Hi Shambles,

Looks like we're in the clear now...They used to mention it a fair bit that we were under part of the hole which was centred on Antarctica but looks o/k now...

http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/

This one shows our proximity a bit better...

[Hemmi]

Hey dazz, I guess you get beautiful auroras like I do.

[Shambles]

Hey dazz, I guess you get beautiful auroras like I do.

Hey Hemmi. I think Dazz's auroras can be treated with cream 

Hey dazz, I guess you get beautiful auroras like I do.

Hey Hemmi. I think Dazz's auroras can be treated with cream 

[Dazzler]

Hey dazz, I guess you get beautiful auroras like I do.

I've only seen them once (I should get out more often)

So it's a bit hard to put cream on them....

[Hemmi]

you guys are silly