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Not So Fast
12-04-2007, 05:02 PM
these:D
This one will really make people think....
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.
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!!
:D :D NSF

RitcheyRch
12-04-2007, 05:05 PM
Pretty cool stuff

uvindex
12-04-2007, 05:56 PM
Cool, but many are false (just pick one and google it to see what I mean). :)

snake321
12-04-2007, 06:01 PM
The tremendous volume of water never stops flowing, However, the falling water and mist create ice formations along the banks of the falls and river.
This can result in mounds of ice as thick as fifty feet. If the Winter is cold for long enough, the ice will completely stretch across the river and form what is known as the "ice bridge". This ice bridge can extend for several miles down river until it reaches the area known as the lower rapids.
Until 1912,visitors were allowed to actually walk out on the ice bridge and view the Falls from below. February 24th of 1888 the local newspaper reported that at least 20,000 people watched or tobogganed on the ice. Shanties selling liquor, photographs and curiosities abounded. On February 4th 1912 the ice bridge broke up and three tourists lives were lost.
There can also be a great deal of "mini-icebergs" which flow down the Niagara River from frozen Lake Erie. The flow of ice has been reduced
considerably by the yearly installation of the "ice-boom" on Lake Erie. The ice-boom is a long floating chain (2miles- 3.2 KM) of steel floats strung across the Niagara River from Buffalo New York to Fort Erie Ontario.
It is set in place during the month of December and removed during the month of March or April. It is maintained by the New York State Power Authority. The ice boom helps prevent the ice from clogging the river and most importantly the hydroelectric companies water intakes.
HOWEVER.... The flow of water was stopped completely over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river for several hours. This is the only known time to have occurred. The Falls did not actually freeze over, but the flow was stopped to the point where people actually walked out and recovered artifacts from the riverbed

clownpuncher
12-04-2007, 06:04 PM
I call bullshit on everything
.:D

snake321
12-04-2007, 06:12 PM
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- 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.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo

Boatcop
12-04-2007, 06:41 PM
***boat has a magazine. :idea:
:D

maxwedge
12-04-2007, 07:15 PM
Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand ...
Only with the left hand, my ass! Hell, I bet I can even type the word "stewardesses" using my right foot if I want.:D

Excessive Force
12-04-2007, 11:16 PM
I-R-S the only 3 letters that can bring a man down to his knees, crying!

thatguy
12-05-2007, 06:38 AM
Polar Bears and Chows are distant relatives. The only two species with Blue tongues.

Cigalert
12-05-2007, 06:47 AM
Dogs and bees can smell fear.

Not So Fast
12-05-2007, 06:57 AM
It's not the gospel guys, its just that this place has been pretty boring lately and this probably adds to it, but sort of fun:D :D NSF