[NSRCA-discussion] Do You Know Everything?

[Ken Thompson]

Damn...I thought I already knew everything!!!

Ken
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  SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?




     "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the
    left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out
    mentally, didn't you?)
      
     Maine is the only state whose name is just one
    syllable. (I'll bet you're going to check this out.)
      
     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.
     (Isn't that "great" news, especially for some of us.)
      
     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?) I checked this one out and it does
    use every letter of the alphabet.
      
     The words 'racecar,' 'kayak,' 'radar' 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)
      
     All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
    Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
      
     A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
      
     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.)
      
     Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
      
     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.
      
     If you are an average American, in your whole life, you
    will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
      
     Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
      
     On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
    Parliament building is an American flag.
      
     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, QE2, 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 everything!




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