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Increase Your Knowledge I am sure you may know a lot of these, it not they are fun to know. "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. (I know some people like that also) Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the 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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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. My head turns skyward this time of month. Spring brings me great joy and earthly warmth. The full moon exudes a hue of orange. The stars seem so shy and deathly strange. Behind each storm lies a lining of silver. My hand reaches out wanting to pilfer. Twilight arrives with crimson and purple. One more night of hunger and soft gurgle. Time for dinner.
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2/26/2008 7:25 am |
Ah, you are the famous puzzle solver. Nan and SFB mentioned you in their blogs before. Thank you for the information and I will make the corrections. Do you still do the puzzles? VICKY
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2/24/2008 7:15 pm |
Hi, and welcome to my blog. Really?!!!! I thought it came from The Ancient Greek word ἱστορία, istoría, means "knowledge acquired by investigation, inquiry". It was in that sense that Aristotle used the word in his Περί Τά Ζωα Ιστορία, Peri Ta Zoa Istória or, in Latinized form, Historia Animalium.[3] The term is derived from ἵστωρ, hístōr meaning wise man, witness, or judge. We can see early attestations of ἵστωρ in Homeric Hymns, Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes' oath, and in Boiotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either "judge" or "witness," or similar). The spirant is problematic, and not present in cognate Greek eídomai ("to appear"). The form historeîn, "to inquire", is an Ionic derivation, which spread first in Classical Greece and ultimately over all of Hellenistic civilization. VICKY
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2/24/2008 11:17 am |
I found one error: "Our eyes are always the same size from birth" Our eyes are roughly 18 mm from the cornea to the retina at birth. As we age, this distance increases to about 24 mm. If a person's eye stops growing too soon, they become farsighted. If the eye grows too much, the person becomes nearsighted. For example, I am nearsighted and my retina is thinning because my eye is longer than it should be (this was confirmed by my eye doctor). Here are a few interesting ones I know about: There is only one English word with the sequence -ufa-. That is 'manufacture'. The volume of Jupiter is large enough to hold more than 330 Earths. If all humans alive right now were compressed, we would fit into a sugar cube. This is because we are made of atoms, which are 99% empty space. A dragline of spider silk would have to be more than 80 kilometers long before rupturing under its own weight. Spiders are able to walk upside down on smooth glass plates purely by physical adhesion. There are no suction cups on spiders. The newly constructed Large Hadron Collider in Europe generates more than 100 terabytes of data per second. Sharks find prey by smell and then attack by sensing electric fields. There are more than 100 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh. 80 degress Fahrenheit is not twice as hot as 40 degrees Fahrenheit. White wine contains more fluoride (rated in ppm) than tap water. Mycobacterium vaccae, a bacterium found in soil, can alleviate depression. Genetically, 'race' does not exist among humans. To say that all blacks are the same or all whites are the same would be like saying all tigers and zebras are the same, because they have stripes. The language of Cambodia, known as 'Khmer', has the longest alphabet, with 101 letters. There is no Chinese alphabet. Nor is there a Japanese alphabet. The Koreans have an alphabet and the letters are combined into syllable blocks. The Big Bang was not an explosion in space. It was an explosion of space.
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2/24/2008 5:53 am |
wow.............. I really envy you that you are able to be that literally creative. cheers
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1 post 2/24/2008 3:41 am |
Very fun and interesting facts, Victory!! A few more word notes: Others [with the vowels in order] include the rare botanical words acheilous, anemious, and caesious, the rare zoological word annelidous, and the chemical term arsenious, . Note that "annelidous" is another wording ending in "dous". Of course, none could be considered as common words. "Rousseauian" (pertaining to Rousseau) has 5 consecutive vowels. Other words ending in "mt" are "adreamt" and "undreamt", again not common. The longest English words containing no letters more than once are the 15-letter words "uncopyrightable" and "dermatoglyphics". The only common words ending in "-gry" are angry and hungry. That's enough words for now -- I'm a numbers guy!!  Cheers!
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