Monday, January 18, 2010

Trivial Information

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

• "Lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.

• 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".

• The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are palindromes.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're doubting this, are you?)

• 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.

• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

• If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

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