It's time for some very unimportant, useless facts to fill your brains. Maybe one day this information will help you win some big bucks on a quiz show.
* "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
* Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
* 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.
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* 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 snail can sleep for three years
* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
I hope that all this useless information has made your day. Do you have more of these facts to share? If you do, please add them as comments.
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