रविवार, 30 अगस्त 2009

क्या आप ये भी जानते हैं !

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"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.






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!


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राज भाटिय़ा ने कहा…

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Meenu Khare ने कहा…

Very Very Interesting facts. Thanx for the catchy post.