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Thought You Knew Everything?

Mar 29, 2015 Features / Columnists, Food For Thought

…Well did you know that?
· 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 remain the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
·  It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
· 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 .
· TYPEWRITER   is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
· Babies are born without kneecaps; they don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
· If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
· Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
· There are more chickens than people in the world.
· Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
· The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
· Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
· A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
· A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
· In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
·The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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