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Little known but very common Trivia: have fun!!

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  1. BigDogsHunt

    BigDogsHunt Enough talk...prove it!

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    A wealth of useless "but entertaining" knowledge:

    1) "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

    2) "Lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.

    3) No word in the English language rhymes with Month, orange, silver, or purple.

    4) "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".

    5) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, But our nose and ears never stop growing throughout our life.

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

    7) The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read Left to right or right to left.

    8) There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

    9) There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

    10) TYPEWRITER is the longest word That can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

    11) A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

    12) A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

    13) A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time - measuring 1/100th of a second.

    14) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

    15) A snail can sleep for three years.

    16) Almonds are a member of the peach family.

    17) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    18) Human Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

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

    20) In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

    21) If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

    22) Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

    23) Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

    24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    25) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

    26) The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

    27) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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

    29) There are more chickens than Humans in the world.

    30) Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

    31) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

    Now you know more than you did before - maybe more than you wanted - could be a good thing or a bad thing!!
     
  2. BigDogsHunt

    BigDogsHunt Enough talk...prove it!

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    #9, #10, #13, #18, #21, #26 and #29 are mind-boggling to degrees
     
  3. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    That's hard to do when walking.
     
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  4. BigDogsHunt

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    Not if you are in the back of the line!!!!!:up:

    p.s. 8 Abreast mean 4 women shoulder to shoulder right?:escape:
     
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  5. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    :chuckle:
     
  6. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    TELL me about it. :pity:
     
  7. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    Too bad it's not another body part that keeps growing. :pity:
     
  8. BigDogsHunt

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    I think the next time you get your oil changed you should claim FALSE ADVERTISING and not pay!


    LOL...your's is still the same size from birth????
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    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    You can drink liquids and eat solid foods while urinating at the same time.

    You can also drink liquids while defecating at the same time.

    But you cannot INGEST solid foods while defecating at the same time. (If you try it..two very interesting things happen.....)
     
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  10. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Don't keep us in suspense!
     
  11. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    You induce a GAG reflex, and you lock your intestines.

    it is supposed to be very unhealthy.
     
  12. BigDogsHunt

    BigDogsHunt Enough talk...prove it!

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    Oh, so its like the rumor about the risk of making eye contact with Nancy Pelosi?????:up:
     
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  13. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    No!

    Unless the pool is cold.
     

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