Did You Know.................?

[hellyer 216]

Did you know

 

That 75 Snow Japan members were born on January 1st yet only 5 on the day before and 10 on the day after....................................there was some heavy pushing going down on New Years Eve.

[Chriselle 158]

Bored are we..Snowjunky??

[HelperElfMissy 42]

Ahhhh but a date like 1/1 is it their real birthday or is it a default date for people not wanting to reveal their date of birth?

[Slippery Jim 65]

Well, but wouldn't they have to be incensed & peppermints or whatever?

[BagOfCrisps 24]

I knew all of that.

[hellyer 216]

Yes Bags, but did you know this-

Stewardesses"

is the longest word typed with only the left hand

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And "lollipop"

is the longest word typed with your right hand.

 

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No word in the English language rhymes withmonth,

 

orange, silver, or purple.

 

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 

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Our eyesfare always the same sizefrom birth,

but our nosefand ears never stop growing.

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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every letter of the alphabet.

 

 

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The words 'racecar,'

'kayak' , and 'level'

are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

 

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TYPEWRITERs the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

 

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

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A goldfishhas a memory span of three seconds.

 

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

 

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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

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A snail can sleep for three years.

 

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Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that also)

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Babies are born without kneecaps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 

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

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci inventedthe scissors.

 

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

 

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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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

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The cruise liner, QE 2

moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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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.)

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

 

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There are more chickens than people in the world.

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Winston Churchill

was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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Bonus!! All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!!

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Now you know (a little) more than you did before

[snowdude 44]

You missed a few,

 

mum, dad and nun are also the same when read backwards.

[Peetan 10]

"A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes"

 

How can you blink with one eye???

[Boolugu Mez 3]

"satan oscillate my metallic sonatas" is the longest palindromic sentence that I have heard....

[hellyer 216]

Did you know?

 

The definition of bottomless?

 

bot·tom·less (btm-ls)

adj.

1. Having no bottom.

2. Too deep to be measured: a bottomless glacier lake.

3. Difficult or impossible to understand; unfathomable: one of the bottomless mysteries of life.

4. Having no limitations or bounds; limitless: a bottomless supply of money.

5.

a. Nude, especially unclothed below the waist: bottomless dancers.

b. Featuring such dancers as entertainment: bottomless bars.

6 Mt Granview

[snowdude 44]

Bottomless.....

 

Sun meadows here in Yamanashi last year.....lol.