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Interesting...

Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:16 am

Just got emailed this, there's a few newies in there... :?

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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, 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.
(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.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.


Now you know everything!

Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:10 am

and you have too much time on your hands :twisted:

Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:40 am

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The person has this very wrong.

Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:36 am

some interesting facts in there...now i cant wait to play trivial pursuit again...

oh..sarcasm doesnt come across in here does it??

Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:48 am

Neka79 wrote:oh..sarcasm doesnt come across in here does it??

You have to turn sarcasm on like so:
/sarcasm on

...but don't forget to turn it off, otherwise people will think everything you say past that point is just you being sarcastic.
You can turn it off like so:
/sarcasm off


8) 8)

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:05 pm

Ratmick wrote:You have to turn sarcasm on like so:
/sarcasm on

...but don't forget to turn it off, otherwise people will think everything you say past that point is just you being sarcastic.
You can turn it off like so:
/sarcasm off


8) 8)


Okay
/sarcasm on


That's a brilliant function Ratmick... You're a bloody legend...

/sarcasm off


Seriosuly, that's a brilliant function Ratmick... You're a bloody legend...

What the??? IT's not switching off... What's IT support's number? :x


:wink:

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:07 pm

BladeBoy wrote:Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The person has this very wrong.


Not "very" wrong. Just a little bit wrong.

Eye formation begins during the end of the third week of development when outgrowths of brain neural tissue, called the optic vesicles, form at the sides of the forebrain region. The major structures of the eye- the retina, lens, and eyeball coats- are initially formed by the fifth month of fetal development. During the remainder of the prenatal period, eye structures continue to enlarge, mature and form increasingly complex neural networks with the visual processing regions of the brain.

At birth, an infants eyes are about two-thirds the size of adult eyes. Until after their first month of life, most newborns lack complete retinal development, especially in the area responsible for visual acuity. From the second year of life until puberty, eye growth progressively slows. After puberty, eye growth is negligible.

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:10 pm

aardvark wrote:
BladeBoy wrote:Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The person has this very wrong.


Not "very" wrong. Just a little bit wrong.

Eye formation begins during the end of the third week of development when outgrowths of brain neural tissue, called the optic vesicles, form at the sides of the forebrain region. The major structures of the eye- the retina, lens, and eyeball coats- are initially formed by the fifth month of fetal development. During the remainder of the prenatal period, eye structures continue to enlarge, mature and form increasingly complex neural networks with the visual processing regions of the brain.

At birth, an infants eyes are about two-thirds the size of adult eyes. Until after their first month of life, most newborns lack complete retinal development, especially in the area responsible for visual acuity. From the second year of life until puberty, eye growth progressively slows. After puberty, eye growth is negligible.



Ammm thanks for that Jas

/sarcasm off :wink:

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:11 pm

My mum always says my eyes get bigger whenever she puts dinner on the table...

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:13 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:38 pm

Stereo wrote:My mum always says my eyes get bigger whenever she puts dinner on the table...


sarcasm on/
and look at the result
sarcasm off/










joke joke :lol: :lol:

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:44 pm

Smitty wrote:
Stereo wrote:My mum always says my eyes get bigger whenever she puts dinner on the table...


sarcasm on/
and look at the result
sarcasm off/










joke joke :lol: :lol:


/sarcasm off

i hurt people for less than what you've just called stereo

/sarcasm on

Man, that was a ripper joke smitty.

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:59 pm

Hey Duane...

I really love how you siggie makes sense...

/Sarcasm off

Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:14 pm

red_dave wrote:Hey Duane...

I really love how you siggie makes sense...

/Sarcasm off


Nice grammar

/sarcasm off

Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:20 pm

sarcasm on/

looks like jason discovered google..... what else did u get for christmas??

sarcasm off/





actually me being the lazy bastard, im gunna shorten it to

sarc-on/
sarc-off/ (not to be confused with "suck-off"...dont want mario & duane getting excited)
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