WE DID NOT LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL

 
WE DID NOT LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL…………………………… 
 
 

 
'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.' And Education. 
(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!!