You learn something new every day

[Barry_White]

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr;" width="100%"> <table style=" 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; 100%;" width="100%"> <table style=" 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; 100%;" valign="top" width="100%"> I received this as an email from a friend and it came with animated cartoons but I cant copy them because there is no source for them but the words come out OK.




Stewardesses' http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] is the longest word typed with only the left hand .
And 'lollipop' http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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. http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. ? (Are you doubting this?)
http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
Our eyes http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] are always the same size from birth, but our nosehttp://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] and ears http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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?)
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The words 'racecar,' http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 'kayak' http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] and 'level' http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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.)

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[Barry_White]

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 http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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. http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]



A goldfish http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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. http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]



A shark http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] family.




An ostrich's eyehttp://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)


Babieshttp://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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. http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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[Barry_White]

Leonardo DaVinci inventedthe scissors
http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
Peanuts http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] are one of the ingredients of dynamite! http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
Rubber bandshttp://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
The cruise liner, QE 2, http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] 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 http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] froze completely solid.
There are more chickens http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] people in the world.
Winston Churchill http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blinkhttp://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected] nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!
The Rain-Thomas Kinkade

http://www.woodworkforums.com/cid:[email protected]
This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It's rumored to carry a miracle!
They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle. I am passing this on because I thought it was real lifelike, and besides, who couldn't use a miracle?!



Pity about the pics.

[snowyskiesau]

An old email that crops ups from time to time.

A quick search of such sites as snopes.com (http://snopes.com) shows quite a few of these 'facts' to be
incorrect.

[Barry_White]

Like I say don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. You may notice it is in the drivel forum.

[snowyskiesau]

Sorry, didn't mean to treat this too seriously :D.

It amuses me that such emails survive for as long as they do. A few minutes with your
favourite search engine can sort these claims out.
It's interesting that most (if not all) of the ones I've seen, originate from the US. :U

I still get the occasional chain letter which, having failed to pass them on, probably explains my current run of bad luck :doh:

Must go and check out my horoscope....

[bsrlee]

Lennie from Vinci did NOT invent scissors. About the only thing he seems to have 'invented' was a type of acrylic or epoxy paint - he used it for the mural 'The Last Supper' - and it didn't last.

Scissors were probably invented by a Moslem surgeon who wrote under the name Al-Bucasis or one of his close associates (1300's?). I have a recent translation of his manual on medicine & surgery buried on my bookshelves somewhere.

[rhancock]

And a high school student recently proved that goldfish can remember at least 3 weeks ago.

[Harry72]

rhymes with purple... turtle!

[Gingermick]

myrtle, fertil---ise.