
And "lollipop"

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



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,'



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

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish

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

A shark

A snail

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye

Babies

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


Rubber bands

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2,

The microwave

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls

There are more chickens

Winston Churchill

Women blink

Now you know more than you did before!
ok, i learned stuff
ReplyDeleteSarge,
ReplyDeleteYou are now smarter than you were when you began reading this post. Congratulations.
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ReplyDeleteNosmij20,
ReplyDeleteYou are not the only one who does this, but it strikes me as strange when I am asked to visit someone's site and they don't leave the link or their url. This is turning into a pet peeve of mine.
That was a fun post, Mel. It was also instructive, just in case any of those bits of knowledge end up in Trivia Pursuit. (Does anyone still play that game?)
ReplyDeleteNick,
ReplyDeleteI haven't though about Trivial Pursuits in 20 years. I still have the "Baby Boomer" edition; probably buried somewhere in my garage.
LOL! Cool fun facts Mel! Dropping by to check out the new list. Have a good weekend! :)
ReplyDeleteMariuca,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the visit.
That Full moon one is phenomenal !!!!I'm so smart now
ReplyDeleteHi Sandy,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I could be of service.
Hi Mel,
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun way of gaining knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
"..but our nose and ears never stop growing." - now that's a bit scary :-)
Hi Zunner,
ReplyDeleteIt took a while to put this post together, but it was fun. The ears and nose thing scared me too.
What about the old english word borange for orange and splonth for month (means second from top rung of the ladder)
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Hi JIC,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the challenge, however, neither word comes up when using the on-line dictionary. I'm sure we can go into old English words, Gaelic or many other dialects and find words that rhyme, but not standard English.
Wonderful posts! Care to exchange links?
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